I looked into this further and it turns out there's really two issues with respect to the metrics.
It seems that in previous releases of urwcyr, the Latin glyphs for some fonts just had the wrong metrics. This claims to have been fixed in pre41, and my print tests confirm that this is the case. So, in fact, this isn't the same problem as discussed in #268225, and it seems that the current release works fine for typesetting & printing. The second issue is the bounding box metric. I'm not sure why the bounding box is much taller in urwcyr releases of Nimbus Sans L, but I presume it has to do with the height of some of the added glyphs not found in the upstream 8.11 upstream release, nor found in the previous Debian composite version (8.11+urw-0.2). The new bounding box is right in the sense that it accurately reflects the addition of taller glyphs. However, the rest of the font glyphs were designed such that they sat in the center of the font's bounding box, now they're offset and slightly lower. This isn't a problem in typesetting or printing, but they look ugly as screen fonts since cairo/xft use the bounding box for interline spacing. Until the urwcyr fonts reach a level of quality where they are reincorporated into the upstream gsfonts releases, it would be my preference for there to be two gsfonts packages: gsfonts which tracks upstream relases, and gsfonts-urwcyr which incoporates these new glpyhs. However, since this seems to be only a screen font issue and doesn't affect printing, this bug is much less of a concern than I originally thought. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
