Hi Khaled, On Friday, 2011-09-02 18:21:50 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > > MSWord is not known for its sane handling of font metrics, and I have > > > been told recent (2007-) broke it even further. > > > > Hum, ending up with .docs, .docxs, .rtfs that layout even further from > > their original how-they-layout-in-word, while pre-existing .odts and so > > forth also change layout sounds somewhat worrying :-). We may have to > > cook up a "use-old-school-metrics" compatibility flag or something like > > that along the lines of some similar flags we already have. I might try > > and play around the area. > > This would even be better. With my font developer hat on I'd prefer > enforcing standard compliance (old behaviour is against OpenType > recommendation), but as long as there is a way to get the correct > behaviour I'm fine. With http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=052f181dad89ad34d90513bc9dcd3e3239727933 the new spacing is used only if SAL_USE_NEW_LINEHEIGHT=1 is set in the environment, else the old metrics are used. > Khaled (who is suffering right now from this very same issue with MS Word) Which indicates even more that we can't switch just like that to the new metrics. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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