{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146/events","html_url":"https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146","id":114396733,"number":146,"title":"Line spacing could be optimised further","user":{"login":"jpluimers","id":2033367,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2033367?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers","html_url":"https://github.com/jpluimers","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/labels/Design","name":"Design","color":"fbca04"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-31T08:06:31Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T15:58:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm using https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/releases/download/v2.015/Hack-v2_015-ttf.zip\r\n\r\nLine spacing could be optimised further. Lucida Console displays 63 lines which is 15% more than Hack that displays 55 lines. \r\n\r\nWith Lucida Console, the lines really touch each other: look at the lower and upper stems in this code fragment at lines 49/50:\r\n\r\n      fmShareCompat    = $0000 platform; // DOS compatibility mode is not portable\r\n      fmShareExclusive = $0010;\r\n\r\nThis is from a Windows 8.1 doing an RDP connection with 32-bit colour depth to my development machine that runs Windows 7 that runs Delphi 2007 but I have similar results in Visual Studio 2013 ([Hack](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qekxo0pc07w7yb/20151031-VS2013-Hack%4010points.png?dl=0) vs [Lucida Console](https://www.dropbox.com/s/i0q0kn34c11p7dj/20151031-VS2013-LucidaConsole%4010points.png?dl=0):\r\n\r\n# Hack @ 10 points\r\n\r\n[![Hack @ 10 points](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ey7rzgiuzrwpv9d/20151031-SysUtils-Hack%4010points.png?raw=1)](https://www.dropbox.com/s/ey7rzgiuzrwpv9d/20151031-SysUtils-Hack%4010points.png?dl=0)\r\n\r\n# Lucida Console @ 10 points\r\n[![Lucida Console @ 10 points](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9w2nop21070k3dc/20151031-SysUtils-LucidaConsole%4010points.png?raw=1)](https://www.dropbox.com/s/9w2nop21070k3dc/20151031-SysUtils-LucidaConsole%4010points.png?dl=0)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/comments/153773061","html_url":"https://github.com/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146#issuecomment-153773061","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/chrissimpkins/Hack/issues/146","id":153773061,"user":{"login":"jpluimers","id":2033367,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2033367?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers","html_url":"https://github.com/jpluimers","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jpluimers/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-04T15:58:22Z","updated_at":"2015-11-04T15:58:22Z","body":"It would be soooo cool if in addition to font sizes, line spacing would be configurable in one way or the other by the tools I use. Too bad they don't. \r\n\r\nHow difficult would it be to build a one-off that have smaller line heights (My knowledge on this is rusty as I've been out of the scalable font industry for like 20 years, but given the work I did for Polyvroom and Mecanorma in the early 90's producing fonts for Monotype and others, it still interests me a lot)."}}