[Libreoffice] Bringing some sanity to interline spacing

[Khaled Hosny]

Hello all,

The current calculation of interline spacing is fundamentally flawed, at
least on "unx".

The implementation of ServerFont::FetchFontMetric() in gcach_ftyp.cxx
does the following:
* gets ascent/descent from FT_Size_Metrics which is fine
* sets internal leading to the value of line gap while this should be
  the external leading
* if the font has an OS/2 table
  - recalculates the metrics based on WinAscent/WinDescent which is
    absolutely wrong as these metrics should never be used to control
    line spacing
  - external leading get set based on a combination of metrics from HHEA
    table and WinAscent/WinDescent
  - for CJK it "adds half of the external leading to the ascent, the
    other half is added to the descent" because "the line height for
    Asian fonts is too small", my reaction reading this was "WTF!"

The main problem here is that OS/2 Win metrics should never be used for
controlling line spacing[1] and Typo metrics should used instead[2]. The
Win metrics in the font are set to be higher than the highest/deepest
glyph in the font, else Windows will clip portions of the glyphs above
those values, for most fonts Win and Typo values can be the same, but
for some special fonts that have very big glyphs like Neo Euler[3], XITS
Math[4] or Cambria Math the Win values are much bigger resulting in huge
line spacing, see attached screen shots. #38683[5] is another example of
problems caused by this.

The attached patch is an attempt to bring some sanity to the situation:
* external leading = height - ascent + descent (line gap)
* internal leading = ascent + descent - EM_size
* if the font has an OS/2 table typo metrics are used
* no need for HHEA stuff as freetype derives its size metrics from it
  anyway.
* removed the bogus CJK stuff
* removed check for freetype < 2.0 which we don't support anyway

This only done for 'unx' similar work is needed for 'win' and 'aqua',
but I'm not familiar with these platforms and can't test on it.
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm#wa
[2] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm#sta
[3] https://github.com/khaledhosny/euler-otf
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XITS_font_project
[5] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38683

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Egyptian
 Arab
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screenshot-before.png
Type: image/png
Size: 59993 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/attachments/20110829/7d829a4b/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screenshot-after.png
Type: image/png
Size: 68865 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/attachments/20110829/7d829a4b/attachment-0003.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: gcach_ftyp.diff
Type: text/x-diff
Size: 4306 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/attachments/20110829/7d829a4b/attachment-0001.diff>