> that's why I try to stay in the very narrow band of sizes 13 and 14 :) > bdf2subf did a much better job at properly sizing fonts. > > now that you've made me look, there's a magic constant used for sizing > in main.c:611 of freetype-plan9 (ttf2subf). the constant 64 works well > for sizes 13-14 but not for smaller sizes. if you lower that to 48 you > can get even "size 10" to display well. raising it up to 72 causes > even "size 13" to exhibit glyphs chopped from above/below. >
i don't think it's a sizing thing. i think ttf2subf is somehow getting the baseline wrong for letters like Â. (try cyberbit even at 14.) - erik
