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Re: Tick Reduction
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
Re: Tick Reduction |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:26:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Emacs knows that for each character it displays. (Assuming I
> understand what "x-height of a character" means in this context.) We
> get the full metrics of the character from the font, and use that for
> layout.
The x-height is literally the height of the lower-case x character. 😀
But it's used as a shorthand to say something about the characteristics
of a font -- the x-height is what matters most for legibility, and the
ascenders (in characters like "b") and descenders (in characters like
"g") are separate things.
Fonts with equal heights but different x-heights mix badly visually.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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