On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 10:55:27AM -0800, Eric Pruitt wrote: > I've had this same problem since I upgraded to Debian 10. I believe this > is due to changes in character bounding box sizes because you can fix > this by adjusting cwscale and chscale. On my systems, I only have > vertical gaps, and setting chscale to 0.94 removes them. I submitted a > patch to the mailing list to allow both values to be specified using > absolute values of pixels instead of multipliers > (https://lists.suckless.org/hackers/1907/16943.html) so you can ensure > bounding boxes were always the same size regardless of what the font > library reports character dimensions to be, but it was not committed.
I did fool around with your patch and the dejavu font: when I forced the pixel size I got those gaps. Not to mention the anti-aliasing seems to be involved. It looks like we are digging out freetype/ttf demons? -- Sylvain
