[Matplotlib-devel] v2.0.0b2

[Benjamin Root]

might be an even/odd thing?

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:26 PM, OceanWolf via Matplotlib-devel <
matplotlib-devel at python.org> wrote:

> Okay, I have cropped and enlarged the image (see attached) for you to see
> the problem with how the example renders on my computer.  As you see all of
> "y"s in "year" sit flush with the bottom (no gap/padding) apart from "20
> year" which has a 1px gap from the bottom of the "y" to edge of the cell.
> Notice also that the "0"s on 20 and 10 have a one pixel gap above them,
> whilst on the others they have a 2px gap.
>
> I don't know where the trouble comes from, I haven't looked into the text
> part of the codebase yet, so I don't know how we calculate the row height
> and whether/how we use external font-libraries to do some of this for us,
> so ignoring that, I would expect it to (at least in this simple table
> situation) calculate a theoretical max height, i.e. from the bottom of the
> glyph with the lowest descender to the top of the glyph with the highest
> ascender, and then add whatever padding we specify around that and use that
> for every text row, so that the imaginary "ascender height" and "descender
> height" lines seen in the figure here
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_%28typography%29 appear in the
> same place in each cell.  I have oversimplified my expected logic here for
> sensible default scenario and assuming 1 line of text per cell, and nothing
> other than text in the table.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descender>
>
> Does that clarify the problem?  I thought that as we touch the default
> style here we might as well get it looking perfect, but if I go too
> nitpicky then we can save it for a bug-fix release / feature release.
>
> Best,
> OceanWolf
>
>
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> *From:* Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com>
> *To:* Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, 14 July 2016, 0:23
> *Subject:* Re: [Matplotlib-devel] v2.0.0b2
>
> @Matthew Yes please, I just push the source tarball up and am working on
> sorting out how to turn the crank on the many linux docker
>
> @oceanwolf yes, but I did not understand the issue.
>
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