Just for fun (not knowing anything about fonts) I tried to look at the 'working' and 'buggy' versions of FreeMono and FreeSerif with ttx (=fonttools) and fontforge.
ttx FreeSerif.ttf produces an XML file called FreeSerif.ttx in which there is a section <hhea>, which has different values in the working and buggy versions: working buggy <ascent value="800"/> <ascent value="1166"/> <descent value="-200"/> <descent value="-545"/> Wouldn't this account for the larger line spacing? However, fontforge, "element", "font info", "General" shows ascent=800 and descent=-200 for both versions. Bug in fontforge? <hhea> also has something called advanceWidthMax value, which, in FreeMono, is 600 in the working version and 950 in the buggy version. This might allow for the horizontal spacing problem with FreeMono. Of course I tried to edit the values in the .ttx files and then to transform the .ttx back to .ttf. You are supposed to be able to use the same program (/usr/bin/ttx) for this. But it does not work; the conversion stops with a lot of error messages. Bug in fonttools? Maybe a real 'font guy' could find the solution quickly.. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
