[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 17200] tilde '~' becomes a straight line at small font sizes

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17200





--- Comment #5 from Mark Tyndall <fdesk_mrt at tyndall.org.uk>  2008-08-27 03:28:56 PST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
[...]
> Leaving off the -r 96 shows that 5pt at 96 dpi is 7 px/em.
> 
[...]
> Frankly, the font is barely legible at all at 7 px/em (he says, who used
> to use 75dpi/lutRS10.pcf as his xterm/emacs font, back in the 80s and 90s;
> young eyes do have their perks).  So I don't know how critical it is.

I'm more concerned about the faces which don't display well at the
not-quite-so-minuscule sizes - Condensed and Light have problems at 7/8/9 pt.

(My particular use that triggered the behaviour is using 8pt Sans Condensed to
display filenames in Windows Explorer.)


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