In qfont_metrics.C, ascent/descent always return a positive value, which is obviously wrong (this has a visual effect: write x' in mathed and the space to the next line increases). Reading the QT documentation, I made a patch that fixes this.
Index: qfont_metrics.C =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/lyx/cvsroot/lyx-devel/src/frontends/qt2/qfont_metrics.C,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -p -r1.16 qfont_metrics.C --- qfont_metrics.C 20 Oct 2002 14:27:28 -0000 1.16 +++ qfont_metrics.C 21 Oct 2002 15:15:18 -0000 @@ -46,21 +46,23 @@ int maxAscent(LyXFont const & f) int maxDescent(LyXFont const & f) { - return metrics(f).descent(); + return metrics(f).descent()+1; + // We add 1 as the value returned by QT is different than X + // See http://doc.trolltech.com/2.3/qfontmetrics.html#200b74 } int ascent(char c, LyXFont const & f) { QRect r = metrics(f).boundingRect(c); - return abs(r.top()); + return -r.top(); } int descent(char c, LyXFont const & f) { QRect r = metrics(f).boundingRect(c); - return abs(r.bottom()); + return r.bottom()+1; }