Re: [ft] Different font appearance depending on matrix

[Werner LEMBERG]

> As a baseline, I am using
> 
> [1] xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=26:matrix=0.85 0 0 1'
> 
> this can be rewritten to
> 
> [2] xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=13:matrix=1.7 0 0 2'
> [3] xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7.5:matrix=3.4 0 0 4'
> [4] xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=52:matrix=0.425 0 0 0.5'
> 
> [5] xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=22.1:matrix=1 0 0 1.17647'
> 
> The font looks slightly different for these four configurations (and
> in case of [3] even causes a different window size) - screenshot at
> http://inai.de/files/ftmatrix.png .
> 
> What may be the reason behind the different renderings?

Hinting is done at size `size', then it gets scaled with `matrix'.


    Werner