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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

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