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1 charoffsets 2 =========== 3 4 Description 5 ----------- 6 Some fonts seem to misreport their height, which leads to unsightly vertical 7 gaps appearing between rows of text with characters that are supposed to fill 8 the vertical space, like box-drawing characters. 9 10 This is because the character height that st uses is off from the actual glyph 11 height, so there's a gap of bg space above and below each glyph. This can be 12 adjusted by modifying the `chscale` value, but reducing that value alone just 13 clips the bottom of the glyphs. 14 15 This patch simply adds a `cyoffset` value (and a corresponding `cxoffset`) to 16 allow you to adjust the glyph position, so it doesn't get clipped short when 17 you reduce the `chscale`. You'll have to play with the values to get it to 18 look right with your font choice. 19 20 Example 21 ------- 22 Note the vertical gaps between the lines in the box art, and the raised part 23 that sticks out on the time display. 24 25 Taken with Pragmata Pro with a few font patches applied. 26 27 [](vertical-gaps.png) 28 29 Download 30 -------- 31 * [st-charoffsets-20220311-0.8.5.diff](st-charoffsets-20220311-0.8.5.diff) 32 33 Authors 34 ------- 35 * Zacchary Dempsey-Plante - <zacc@ztdp.ca>