Hi Khaled, On Friday, 2011-09-02 18:21:50 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
MSWord is not known for its sane handling of font metrics, and I have been told recent (2007-) broke it even further.Hum, ending up with .docs, .docxs, .rtfs that layout even further from their original how-they-layout-in-word, while pre-existing .odts and so forth also change layout sounds somewhat worrying :-). We may have to cook up a "use-old-school-metrics" compatibility flag or something like that along the lines of some similar flags we already have. I might try and play around the area.This would even be better. With my font developer hat on I'd prefer enforcing standard compliance (old behaviour is against OpenType recommendation), but as long as there is a way to get the correct behaviour I'm fine.
With http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=052f181dad89ad34d90513bc9dcd3e3239727933 the new spacing is used only if SAL_USE_NEW_LINEHEIGHT=1 is set in the environment, else the old metrics are used.
Khaled (who is suffering right now from this very same issue with MS Word)
Which indicates even more that we can't switch just like that to the new metrics. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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