[bug #57506] Suspicious "slant" values in devps/TI, devlbp/HI, devlbp/HBI

[Dave]

Update of bug #57506 (project groff):

                 Summary: Erroneous "slant" value in Times italic font(s) for
ps device => Suspicious "slant" values in devps/TI, devlbp/HI, devlbp/HBI

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Follow-up Comment #7:

While we're cataloguing suspicious slant values, I think it's safe to say any
font description file that has more than one "slant" line is in error.

$ grep -c ^slant font/dev*/* | grep -v ':[01]$'
font/devlbp/HBI:2
font/devlbp/HI:2
$ grep ^slant font/devlbp/HI font/devlbp/HBI
font/devlbp/HI:slant 18.49
font/devlbp/HI:slant 0
font/devlbp/HBI:slant 18.49
font/devlbp/HBI:slant 0

For both files, both "slant" lines were added in the same commit (the one that
originally added the files themselves):

$ git blame font/devlbp/HI | fgrep slant
7022ec8fcc (Werner LEMBERG 2000-02-27 01:41:16 +0000   1) slant 18.49
7022ec8fcc (Werner LEMBERG 2000-02-27 01:41:16 +0000   6) slant 0
$ git blame font/devlbp/HBI | fgrep slant
7022ec8fcc (Werner LEMBERG 2000-02-27 01:41:16 +0000   1) slant 18.49
7022ec8fcc (Werner LEMBERG 2000-02-27 01:41:16 +0000   6) slant 0

These are both italic fonts, so the "slant 0" line must be the bogus one. 
(Unless 0 was the experimentally determined value that makes accents align
correctly...)


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