TextBox() text clipping when used as a module about drawbot HOT 3 CLOSED

Update: Running the same without executeVanillaTest in a packaged .drawbot file fixes the issue. Seems like a bug then?

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Never use executeVanillaTest inside an running app, this creates a new runloop and closes runloops, which is not good!!

This a made just to be able to run vanilla in terminal

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@typemytype Thank you for the quick response.

Perhaps I worded it poorly: yes, I know not to use executeVanillaTest inside DrawBot.app. I am executing it as a standalone .py file from Terminal—that’s where the bug (?) occurs.

A bit related: Frederik, do you know any resource regarding how the font vertical metrics (hhea, OS/2 and win) should be set up to work correctly in DrawBot (= CoreText, I presume), please?

I am using Glyphs and have been following the best practices (specifically "the Webfont strategy (2019)") but that seems to be problematic in DrawBot.

For instance, lineGap seems to make a big difference between left (positive lineGap) and right (lineGap = 0) when using the code below.

fs = 340
leading = 1
txt = "Hg\nHg"
fonts = ["FontA.otf", "FontB.otf"]

fontSize(fs)
lineHeight(fs * leading)

x, y = 50, 50
for fnt in fonts:
    font(fnt)
    w, h = textSize(txt)
    coords = x, y, w, h
    textBox(txt, coords)
    with savedState():
        fill(None)
        stroke(1, 0, 0)
        rect(*coords)
    x += w

Thank you!

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