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bug #57352: text height for blank line should approximate that of ordinary character

Submitter:  Rik <rik5>
Submitted:  Tue 03 Dec 2019 10:26:21 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Plotting with OpenGL Severity:  2 - Minor
Priority:  3 - Low Item Group:  Matlab Compatibility
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
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Mon 13 Feb 2023 08:01:23 PM UTC, comment #6: 

The following change in ft_text_renderer::update_line_bbox implements what I proposed in comment #1:


diff -r 6bf833d96cbe libinterp/corefcn/ft-text-renderer.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/ft-text-renderer.cc     Sat Feb 11 09:57:47 2023 -0800
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/ft-text-renderer.cc     Mon Feb 13 20:55:59 2023 +0100
@@ -775,6 +775,11 @@
       // Add one pixel to the bbox height to avoid occasional text clipping.
       // See bug #55328.
       bb(3) = (m_ymax + 1) - m_ymin;
+
+      // Fix a minimum line height of 0.5 fontsize, see bug #57352.
+      if (bb(3) < 0.5 * m_font.get_size ())
+        bb(3) = 0.5 * m_font.get_size ();
+


But it doesn't actually make a visual difference. Changing to 1 fontsize makes it better but still not enough.

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Sat 11 Feb 2023 07:27:29 PM UTC, comment #5: 

@Pantxo: This is ancient, but is there a way to have a blank or space character create a vertical spacing equivalent to an ordinary character?  I took a look in gl_render.cc and I couldn't quite follow the logic and gave up.

Rik <rik5>
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Thu 12 Dec 2019 05:09:02 PM UTC, comment #4: 

@Pantxo: I think this will be quick.  Do you know where in the code to stick a statement so that there is a minimum vertical spacing that scales with "FontSize"?

Rik <rik5>
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Mon 09 Dec 2019 10:24:12 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I think experimentation is required for the exact value, but requiring a minimum which is some fraction of "FontSize" seems like a reasonable approach.

Rik <rik5>
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Wed 04 Dec 2019 07:20:00 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Okay, I didn' realize that Matlab also produced lines with varying vertical spacing.  I tried this


clf;
text (.5, .5, {"a", "b^C_D", "e", "f", "", "g"})
text (.6, .5, {"a", "bCD", "e", "f", "", "g"})


and got the results attached in file vspace_example.png.

I don't think there is anything we need to do for Octave in that regard.

I think it would be nice to have a blank line produce a vertical space that was closer to what an ordinary character would make.  Re-titling bug report for that issue.



Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Wed 04 Dec 2019 02:20:12 PM UTC, comment #1: 


>> When there are multiple lines in a text() command, Matlab uses the same vertical spacing for every line.


I tried the following example in ML:


text (.5, .5, {"a", "b^C_D", "e", "f", "", "g"})


So to be exact, ML seems to put a fixed distance between bottom of line N and top of line N+1. You can see in the attached figures that the distance between all baselines is not the same ((1->2)>(3->4)).

As for small characters (".", " ", "-", "" ...), we could probably obtain the same effect by fixing a minimal height, e.g 0.5fontsize.





Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Tue 03 Dec 2019 10:26:21 PM UTC, original submission:  

When there are multiple lines in a text() command, Matlab uses the same vertical spacing for every line.  Octave seems to inspect each line and use a different vertical spacing based on the characters present (characters with descenders or CAPITAL letters will have different heights).

Sample code is attached


## '[]' should create a newline with same height as regular line
clf;
text (.3, .8, {"Hello", 'world', [], 123}, 'fontsize', 20)
text (.5, .8, {"Hello", 'world', 1, 123}, 'fontsize', 20)


The resulting plot is attached as well.

Rik <rik5>
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file #47998:  vspace_example.png added by rik5 (2KiB - image/png)
file #47992:  ML_text.png added by pantxo (1KiB - image/png)
file #47993:  Octave_text.png added by pantxo (941B - image/png)
file #47986:  tst_text_rowheight.m added by rik5 (187B - text/x-matlab)
file #47987:  rowheight.png added by rik5 (23KiB - image/png)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2019-12-04 rik5 Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        Priority5 - Normal 3 - Low
    2019-12-04 rik5 Attached File- Added vspace_example.png, #47998
        Summarytext height for blank line is not the same as for a line with text text height for blank line should approximate that of ordinary character
    2019-12-04 pantxo Attached File- Added ML_text.png, #47992
        Attached File- Added Octave_text.png, #47993
        CategoryPlotting Plotting with OpenGL
    2019-12-03 rik5 Attached File- Added tst_text_rowheight.m, #47986
        Attached File- Added rowheight.png, #47987

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