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On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:45:18PM +0200, Roland Lutz wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > The rendering issues have been introduced in the new version of
> > Pango---1.44.  We've have been already fixed many of them in Lepton
> > 1.9.11 (Lepton is a fork of 'geda-gaf').
> 
> I had a look at these fixes.  If I understand it correctly, you ditched
> baseline alignment completely and use the "logical" text boundaries for text
> alignment which introduces a large gap between the text and the anchor point
> for both "lower" and "upper" alignment.

Sort of, though not accurately.

> As a rationale, you wrote in the commit message that "the
> 'pango_font_metrics*()' functions […] were considered unstable and we used
> them at our own risk".  Do you have any reference for this?

I haven't enough time to dig it up again.  I think, some info on
this can be found in our issue tracker :-)

-- 
  Vladimir

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