retitle 262298 xserver-xfree86: [freetype] does something wrong when a font has a negative minimum width tag 262298 + help upstream thanks On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:05:04PM +0300, Marius wrote: > Well, thinking more about these issues, I believe Xbae is buggy, too. Granted, > negative min width in this specific case is an X server bug, but in general, > negative values are legitimate when a font has all or some chars with the > RtoL directionality. > > I suspect it's a freetype module bug. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lesstif%40hungry.com/msg00025.html I'll take your word for it, but I'm going to need help understanding what the freetype module's actual bug is. If it's not out of spec for a font to have a negative minimum width due to directional issues, then why isn't it just the fault of client-side code that assumes minimum font widths are always positive? -- G. Branden Robinson | The more you do, the more people Debian GNU/Linux | will dislike what you do. branden@debian.org | -- Gerfried Fuchs http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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