| Summary: | Accents invisible on some capital letters except at extreme sizes | ||
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| Product: | DejaVu | Reporter: | Kim Bastin <kim.bastin> |
| Component: | Sans | Assignee: | Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | high | CC: | pclouds |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Windows (All) | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
| Attachments: | Screenshot from OOo.Writer | ||
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Description
Kim Bastin
2006-08-15 00:52:41 UTC
Can you post some screenshots of the first issue? I can't tell what's causing that. Not showing the upper one of two diacritics is a problem which is caused by DejaVu's small line spacing. There is simply no space for two diacritics above a capital, and Windows is rather strict about not showing anything above the glyph bounds defined in the font. In Linux this isn't a problem most of the times and both accents will be shown (though cut-offs do happen sometimes still). This problem isn't easily fixable: changing line spacing would result in a lot of protest (a font shouldn't just change it's metrics), but with no room above a capital we are somewhat stuck on this issue. Created attachment 6566 [details]
Screenshot from OOo.Writer
Pity about the double diacritics, for it makes these characters unusable on the
Windows platform.
Attaching a screenshot of the examples with single diacritics, which seems to
be a different problem.
I note that in the BabelMap character grid, the characters affected appear
higher up in the cell than others that don't show the problem.
Kim Bastin Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ? Please check the status of your issue. Well, this was a blast from the past. Nearly six and a half years ago! I have just copied and pasted the bug description into LibreOffice Writer 4.0.1, the successor to OOo.Writer, and set the font to DejaVu Sans. The first issue mentioned, non-appearance of certain diacritics on capital letters except at large font sizes, has apparently been fixed. The characters listed display correctly. The second issue, with stacked diacritics above capital letters, is still present at least in most cases, and as Ben Laenen remarks in Comment 1, the problem is hard to fix. The only practical fix might be to reduce the height of the base character in such cases so that all the diacritics fit within the bounding box. |
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