{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Tarobish/Jomhuria/issues/16","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Tarobish/Jomhuria/issues/16/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Tarobish/Jomhuria/issues/16/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Tarobish/Jomhuria/issues/16/events","html_url":"https://github.com/Tarobish/Jomhuria/issues/16","id":87858038,"number":16,"title":"Line height setup","user":{"login":"graphicore","id":393132,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/393132?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore","html_url":"https://github.com/graphicore","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/graphicore/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-06-12T21:29:45Z","updated_at":"2015-06-12T21:29:45Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This is a follow up of #3 With input from Khaled Hosny\r\n\r\nOn 06/11/2015 04:40 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:\r\n> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:39:13PM +0200, Lasse Fister wrote:\r\n>> Dave also asked me to set ascender and descender to the global yMin yMax\r\n>> values, But I think the default line-spacing is extreme big now. This is\r\n>> because we have some very extreme characters in the font that push the\r\n>> max-values up; like unicode 06DD ARABIC END OF AYAH.\r\n>\r\n> Right, that practice does not work well for Arabic. What you should do\r\n> is to set typo and hhea metrics to sensible values that give the line\r\n> spacing you desire, and set win metrics to the max (just ticking the\r\n> offset check mark in FontForge and using 0 as value will do), and just\r\n> ignore apps that still use win metrics for line spacing because they are\r\n> unfixable anyway.\r\n>\r\n> Regards,\r\n> Khaled\r\n>\r\n"}}