Re: [gtk-list] Font ascents bug
- From: Steve Hosgood <iisteve iiweeble swan ac uk>
- To: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Font ascents bug
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:07:19 +0100
Mattias "Grönlund" <Mattias.Gronlund@sdf.se> wrote:
> I'm afraid that I have found a bug in the usage of GtkFont->ascent. The
> problem is that the height of a font is ascent + descent + 1 [....]
>
> You can see the bug in action by typing an 'Å' (uppercase aring) and a
> 'g' in testgtk:s entry-box. You will see that the g is displayed as it
> should, but the 'Å' has lost one pixel at the top.
>
Amusingly, this same fault showed up on the my mail reader! Mattias's
example using 'aring' looked just like he described it!
I use "TkMail 4.0beta8" running on top of "wish" 4.2. Evidently, this mistake
is quite well established!
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