const char *fontName = [[nsfont fontName] UTF8String];
int len = strlen (fontName);
+ /* The values specified by fonts are not always exact. For
+ * example, a 6x8 font could specify that the descender is
+ * -2.00000405... (represented by 0xc000000220000000). Without
+ * adjustment, the code below would round the descender to -3,
+ * resulting in a font that would be one pixel higher than
+ * intended. */
+ CGFloat adjusted_descender = [sfont descender] + 0.0001;
+
#ifdef NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP
font_info->nsfont = sfont;
#else
brect = [sfont boundingRectForFont];
full_height = brect.size.height;
- min_height = [sfont ascender] - [sfont descender];
+ min_height = [sfont ascender] - adjusted_descender;
hd = full_height - min_height;
/* standard height, similar to Carbon. Emacs.app: was 0.5 by default. */
/* max bounds */
font_info->max_bounds.ascent =
lrint (hshrink * [sfont ascender] + expand * hd/2);
- /* [sfont descender] is usually negative. Use floor to avoid
+ /* Descender is usually negative. Use floor to avoid
clipping descenders. */
font_info->max_bounds.descent =
- -lrint (floor(hshrink* [sfont descender] - expand*hd/2));
+ -lrint (floor(hshrink* adjusted_descender - expand*hd/2));
font_info->height =
font_info->max_bounds.ascent + font_info->max_bounds.descent;
font_info->max_bounds.width = lrint (font_info->width);
/* set up metrics portion of font struct */
font->ascent = lrint([sfont ascender]);
- font->descent = -lrint(floor([sfont descender]));
+ font->descent = -lrint(floor(adjusted_descender));
font->min_width = ns_char_width(sfont, '|');
font->space_width = lrint (ns_char_width (sfont, ' '));
font->average_width = lrint (font_info->width);