| Summary: | Subscripts and superscripts are too high/low | ||
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| Product: | DejaVu | Reporter: | Denis Jacquerye <moyogo> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | CC: | adam, motchy+freedesktop |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Windows (All) | ||
| URL: | http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13818410 | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | DejaVu Superscripted Digits rendered with freetype2 | ||
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Description
Denis Jacquerye
2006-06-14 09:05:57 UTC
All Bitstream fonts that I have looked at have a bug in the subscriptyoffset. It is entered as a negative value, when it should be positive. This is what it says at Microsoft Typography: "The Subscript Y Offset parameter specifies a font designer's recommended vertical offset from the character baseline to the character baseline for subscript characters associated with this font. Values are expressed as a positive offset below the character baseline. If a font does not include all of the required subscript for an application, this parameter specifies the recommended vertical distance below the character baseline for those subscript characters." Values are expressed as a POSITIVE value below the baseline, i.e. values with a negative value are ABOVE the baseline (>_<). I reported the bug to Bitstream, but they didn't seem to be too concerned. (In reply to comment #1) > All Bitstream fonts that I have looked at have a bug in the > subscriptyoffset. It is entered as a negative value, when it should be > positive. That bug was fixed a long time ago in DejaVu. We now make use of the values FontForge makes by default (but we should perhaps go back to the values defined by Bitstream, except with the negative value made positive of course). The subscripts in DejaVu are currently sitting on the baseline. That is one way to design them, but then the subscriptyoffset should be zero. I prefer to have subscripts bisect the baseline. Created attachment 10475 [details]
DejaVu Superscripted Digits rendered with freetype2
Perhaps related to this more general bug about superscripts and
subscripts. We're observing some issues with the vertical offset
for superscripted digits 0 to 9. Display of a number as "1024 = 2¹⁰"
doesn't work very well with any of the DejaVu fonts.
Update: dejavu-ttf-2.19 same problem observed with the vertical offset for superscripted digits 0 to 9. Just another addition here - it's not just the offsets, but I'm seeing large differences in the *sizes* of the superscript numerals. It's particularly noticeable on Sans Mono in a small font. I use Sans Mono for my terminal windows at 8 or 10pt, and the 0 is quite a bit bigger than 4-9, and 1-3 are again bigger than the 0. This is with version DejaVu 2.20 on Debian unstable. Is it possible to use 'jstf' table to adjust? |
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