Re: xemacs and oversized characters

Friday, 6 November 1998

        Julian Bradfield <jcb(a)daimi.au.dk&gt; writes:

...
 At present, it uses (I say this based on observation, not source
 inspection) the font ascent to determine the line spacing. 
Which version did you use? I recall fixes regarding this be applied and..

...
 Hence, if I write (where Acircumflex denotes the appropriate
 character)

 foo
 Acircumflex 
....in my XEmacs 21.0 these do not overlap. X is homegrown X11R6.3 on
Solaris 2.5.1. I used exactly the same fontspec. 

...
 behind, creating an annoying fly speck. (As a side issue, XEmacs is
 already very prone to fly specks, even without this rather perverse
 case. 
And I think most these have been eliminated too. Or at least should
have been. I cannot remember seeing fly specks recently.

...
 (1) XEmacs should treat outsize characters as it treats any other
 random glyph, and increase the line height accordingly. 
...
 Leaving aside the fact that (1) is much easier than (2), it's
not
 clear to me what the *right* thing to do is. Anybody feel like
 worrying about it? 
I would say (1). TeX does 2, but TeX is not an editor.

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