Description of problem: The liberation fonts as packaged in Fedora can change line height by 1px as reported by fontconfig if switched from bold to non-bold or vice versa. This can break various sites displayed in web browsers, and for example all gitlab code listings viewed on Fedora only (works fine on Ubuntu, Archlinux, ...) aren't lining up properly because of this with the line numbers, which makes the whole thing look like a big mess. A more detailed analysis can be found here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296856 Please note I'm not sure who is the best involved party to fix this and whether e.g. the website should fix it on their side, however I tried playing around with CSS line-height and so far I didn't manage to make it line up myself in the affected configurations (but I'm no CSS expert). Therefore I'm filing a bug here as well, hoping some font expert can shed some light on the issue. There is also a firefox bug report here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296856 There is also a gitlab bug report here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20202 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version : 1.07.4 Release : 7.fc24 How reproducible: 100% at affected font sizes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run an affected configuration (Firefox Nightly on Fedora should work, possibly also regular Firefox stable as packaged in Fedora) at an affected web browser zoom level (100%/standard should work for firefox) 2. Visit a gitlab source code listing of more than just ~10 lines, e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb 3. Look how line numbers and lines match up Actual results: Line numbers are not matching up Expected results: Line numbers are matching up Additional info:
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