DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 10 juillet 2006 16:56, Les Mikesell a écrit :

> I can't do a side-by-side comparison now, but it seems to me that at
> least the font evolution is using is more 'sparse' - that is there is more
> white space around the characters.  Is there any way to reduce the
> line height while keeping the same size characters?

I'll create a bug with your request but since many non latin (and minority
latin) scripts can stack several accents or diacritical over a single
letter, any font with more than base latin coverage will tend to have a
high line height.

See for example:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/01fb/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/022d/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e79/index.htm

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Nicolas Mailhot