charoffsets

Description

Some fonts seem to misreport their height, which leads to unsightly vertical gaps appearing between rows of text with characters that are supposed to fill the vertical space, like box-drawing characters.

This is because the character height that st uses is off from the actual glyph height, so there's a gap of bg space above and below each glyph. This can be adjusted by modifying the chscale value, but reducing that value alone just clips the bottom of the glyphs.

This patch simply adds a cyoffset value (and a corresponding cxoffset) to allow you to adjust the glyph position, so it doesn't get clipped short when you reduce the chscale. You'll have to play with the values to get it to look right with your font choice.

Example

Note the vertical gaps between the lines in the box art, and the raised part that sticks out on the time display.

Taken with Pragmata Pro with a few font patches applied.

An example of the vertical gaps.

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