gvim line height became noticeably bigger in 2.200

[habamax]

2.200

2.002

[philippnurullin]

Looks like it is increased indeed. Here is discussion on how to manually make it smaller https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/10043/how-to-change-the-space-between-lines-in-vim

[mgieseki]

The new line height also affects GVim's airline which is now higher so that the height of some special characters, like the left and right triangles, don't match any longer.

[habamax]

Yep, I know how to workaround it in gvim with set linespace=-3. Was hoping this is font issue, not something 'by design'.

[philippnurullin]

It's difficult matter. There is 4 groups of metrics in font that can be used as reference points when calculation the line-height in the rendering process. The only metrics became bigger in the 2.200 is the WinAscender. It was increased to match the height the character with Vietnamese diacritics (this was a part of the process to meet Google Fonts criteria). So i assume that is why line height increased in Vim but this thought needs testing and understanding what is exact algorithm used in Vim. It seems like a complicated task so it will take a while.

[Zcowyzrg]

I can confirm the last usable font (for me) was the NL version 1.05: You can see nicely continuous vertical lines.

Unfortunately, the regular, non-NL version is worse:

All the later versions from 1.06 and up to the current 2.200 are only getting worse, there's even more space between the lines.

I use the font on Windows with cmd.exe, Notepad++, Eclipse, putty - they all have the same issues with virtually no chance to correct it with settings.

PS. Kudos for the great font!

[philippnurullin]

@Zcowyzrg Well this problem actually can be fixed fairly easy. I'll put in the list for the next release.

[philippnurullin]

Ok, i pushed a demo fix. I will be grateful if you can test it.

1. Install https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/blob/master/fonts/ttf/JetBrainsMonoDEV-Regular.ttf
2. Select JetBrains Mono DEV
3. See if it bring any change in lihe-height. The Boxdrawing may be wonky. Didn't corrected it to work with new line heights.

[habamax]

@philippnurullin yes, looks so much better!

[mgieseki]

I can confirm this as well, and even the airline characters fit nicely together now. Thanks for your great work and the neat font.

[philippnurullin]

Ok, Glad to hear! I'll include this fix in the next update then.

@mgieseki Can you share the screen with the Powerline example. I saw a nasty placement of triangles. Wonder if this if affected too?

[habamax]

@philippnurullin

[mgieseki]

Here is another screenshot similar to my previous one above:

[philippnurullin]

Thanks, looking better! I'll add a bit overlapping to eliminate the gaps.

[Zcowyzrg]

cmd.exe, NL-1.0.5: cmd.exe, DEV (note weaker appearance, smaller font height, but the same line height)

Notepad++, NL-1.0.5, fits 42 lines in a window: Notepad++, DEV, fits 39 lines in the same window:

[shabahengam]

I have 40 line in vim with ver 2.200 and 37 line with DEV version. Left: DEV version ... Right: ver 2.200 xterm, fontsize 10

[Zcowyzrg]

I have just checked the 2.200 font on my linux box - and I don't have any issues with the font like I do on Windows. Both the "normal" and the "NL" versions have identical line height, box drawing characters have no gaps, no "weaker appearance" (which I presume is a scaling issue in Windows). I couldn't find any relevant general font metric that could contribute to the issues in Windows - ttfdump shows differences in head/xmin value (NL:-118, normal:-1740), but no (read: none that I could identify) differences in y or line height. Also checked in FontForge - all the font metrics displayed in font information dialogs are identical. What the heck is wrong with Windows? ;-)

[riskoviv]

In VSCode on Windows 10 Pro (v2004), in version 2.200 symbols height became too high. But in 2.210 dev-version everything looks fine. Here is comparison gif (at 200% size) with JavaScript code in VSCode at font size 13px of 4 versions of the font (1.0.2, 2.000, 2.200, 2.210):

[Noammac]

Pulled today and found that my terminal has become significantly larger than expected. I managed to fix it by manually specifying line height to be 2px shorter.

[N-R-K]

Updating from 2.001 to 2.242, I see the same issue. I lost about 4 whole vertical lines on my terminal...