Re: font calculation in -current seems different

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 06:17:08PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> >anyone noticed that fonts look weird in -current?
> >it looks like the characters are higher in a given line.
> >
> >the characters reach the top of the line height.
> 
> I do see a difference but I upgraded fonts/inconsolata-ttf at the same
> time and presumed it was the font.
> 
> I have also been experimenting with using 70-no-bitmaps.conf in
> /etc/fonts/conf.d which I thought might have caused it.
> 
> I haven't upgraded one machine and have xterms open side-by-side, maybe
> there is less anti-aliasing in the newer one as well.
> 

I was using fonts/overpass which looks bad.
fonts/FiraCode looks reasonable.

Must be something to do with the font, then.