conhost and windows terminal
renamed files; updated script to do summary output only, also quiet mode and option file path for output (else stdout)
added -quiet and fixed -summaryonly parameters
added hyperlink directly to soruce implementation for conhost and terminal seqs
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Co-Authored-By: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
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Co-Authored-By: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
## Summary of the Pull Request
Identifies and scales glyphs in the box and line drawing ranges U+2500-U+259F to fit their cells.
## PR Checklist
* [x] Closes#455
* [x] I work here.
* [x] Manual tests. This is all graphical.
* [x] Metric ton of comments
* [x] Math spreadsheet included in PR.
* [x] Double check RTL glyphs.
* [x] Why is there the extra pixel?
* [x] Scrolling the mouse wheel check is done.
* [x] Not drawing outline?
* [x] Am core contributor. Roar.
* [x] Try suppressing negative scale factors and see if that gets rid of weird shading.
## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments
### Background
- We want the Terminal to be fast at drawing. To be fast at drawing, we perform differential drawing, or only drawing what is different from the previous frame. We use DXGI's `Present1` method to help us with this as it helps us compose only the deltas onto the previous frame at drawing time and assists us in scrolling regions from the previous frame without intervention. However, it only works on strictly integer pixel row heights.
- Most of the hit testing and size-calculation logic in both the `conhost` and the Terminal products are based on the size of an individual cell. Historically, a cell was always dictated in a `COORD` structure, or two `SHORT` values... which are integers. As such, when we specify the space for any individual glyph to be displayed inside our terminal drawing region, we want it to fall perfectly inside of an integer box to ensure all these other algorithms work correctly and continue to do so.
- Finally, we want the Terminal to have font fallback and locate glyphs that aren't in the primary selected font from any other font it can find on the system that contains the glyph, per DirectWrite's font fallback mechanisms. These glyphs won't necessarily have the same font or glyph metrics as the base font, but we need them to fit inside the same cell dimensions as if they did because the hit testing and other algorithms aren't aware of which particular font is sourcing each glyph, just the dimensions of the bounding box per cell.
### How does Terminal deal with this?
- When we select a font, we perform some calculations using the design metrics of the font and glyphs to determine how we could fit them inside a cell with integer dimensions. Our process here is that we take the requested font size (which is generally a proxy for height), find the matching glyph width for that height then round it to an integer. We back convert from that now integer width to a height value which is almost certainly now a floating point number. But because we need an integer box value, we add line padding above and below the glyphs to ensure that the height is an integer as well as the width. Finally, we don't add the padding strictly equally. We attempt to align the English baseline of the glyph box directly onto an integer pixel multiple so most characters sit crisply on a line when displayed.
- Note that fonts and their glyphs have a prescribed baseline, line gap, and advance values. We use those as guidelines to get us started, but then to meet our requirements, we pad out from those. This results in fonts that should be properly authored showing gaps. It also results in fonts that are improperly authored looking even worse than they normally would.
### Now how does block and line drawing come in?
- Block and Line drawing glyphs are generally authored so they will look fine when the font and glyph metrics are followed exactly as prescribed by the font. (For some fonts, this still isn't true and we want them to look fine anyway.)
- When we add additional padding or rounding to make glyphs fit inside of a cell, we can be adding more space than was prescribed around these glyphs. This can cause a gap to be visible.
- Additionally, when we move things like baselines to land on a perfect integer pixel, we may be drawing a glyph lower in the bounding box than was prescribed originally.
### And how do we solve it?
- We identify all glyphs in the line and block drawing ranges.
- We find the bounding boxes of both the cell and the glyph.
- We compare the height of the glyph to the height of the cell to see if we need to scale. We prescribe a scale transform if the glyph wouldn't be tall enough to fit the box. (We leave it alone otherwise as some glyphs intentionally overscan the box and scaling them can cause banding effects.)
- We inspect the overhang/underhang above and below the boxes and translate transform them (slide them) so they cover the entire cell area.
- We repeat the previous two steps but in the horizontal direction.
## Validation Steps Performed
- See these commments:
- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/455#issuecomment-620248375
- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/455#issuecomment-621533916
- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/455#issuecomment-622585453
Also see the below one with more screenshots:
- https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/5743#issuecomment-624940567
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