Re: Height of Unicode chars is not right

[Rasmus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The Latin Modern Math font (and many other "math" fonts) specify a
> preposterously large global height value.  Previously, Emacs always
> obeyed that global value, with the effect that you see.  In the
> development sources, we ignore such large values, and instead compute
> our own value using the actual characters from the font.
>
> If you want to work around that in Emacs before 25.1, find a font that
> supports those symbols, but does not specify such large height values.

>From the same bug that Eli talks, the face-ignored-fonts variable was
mentioned.  This may also be helpful in Emacs<25.

  ;; see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/103083
  (setq face-ignored-fonts '("Latin Modern Math"))

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