>>>>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:24:49 +0100, David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
> No, not in terms of letter spacing. I've fallen victim to an optical > illusion. It's the line-spacing that makes text appear more loose > in other apps. Take a look at these screenshots. The enlarged image > shows Emacs on the left, and TextEdit on the right. > Also, note that the first line is glued to the tool-bar, which > doesn't look good at all. Hmm, I've no idea. Two ways to calculate the line height are shown in http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ATSUI_Concepts/atsui_chap4/chapter_4_section_12.html and Carbon Emacs applies the second one to the space character for getting font ascent and descent(+leading). I also tried some alternatives such as the first one, the maximum value among all ASCII characters, a metric function in ATS, and several adjustment of parameters in ATSUI. But all of them give essentially the same results. Moreover, QuickDraw Text + `SwapQDTextFlags (kQDUseCGTextRendering | kQDUseCGTextMetrics)' also shows the same result. So I think it is the inherent metric for Helvetica. Maybe Cocoa does something special? Do you know how other Carbon applications that use ATSUI look? YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
