Bug 7942

Summary: [hinting] The hyphen (U+002D) is one px too low at pixelsize=14
Product: DejaVu Reporter: James Cloos <cloos>
Component: Mono SansAssignee: Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: minor    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description James Cloos 2006-08-21 09:27:47 UTC 
The instructions for \hyphen put it one px too low at pixelsize=14.
AKA, one px below the line in an \e or an \a.

At pixelsize=13 it looks good, and matches the height of \e's and \a's crossbars. 

(Yes, I know that isn't the most important thing to match, but in DejaVu Sans
Mono those crossbars are at the right height as compared to the x-height....)

It is the case at that size that \x's intersection is a 2x2 block rather than a
single pixel, and the hyphen ends up level with the bottom of that 2x2 block. 
It would be better were it level with the top of that block.

This all presumes it should look good between runs of minuscule latin, greek
and/or cyrillic.
Comment 1 chemtech 2013-03-26 08:00:54 UTC 
James Cloos,
Do you still experience this issue with newer soft ?
Please check the status of your issue.
Or close this bug.
Comment 2 James Cloos 2013-03-26 13:36:01 UTC 
Blast from the past month, eh?

Someone who compiles freetype with the byte code interpreter will have to test.  I switched entirely to autofit a few years ago, when aging eyes forced me to abandon 16px fonts in favour of 18-22px fonts.

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