title: How to reduce TextView line spacing
body: <p>I am trying to reduce the line spacing in a TextView by setting a negative 'add' to TextView.setLineSpacing(). It works well except that the bottom line get truncated. </p>
  
  <p>Main layout</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;TextView
      android:id="@+id/text_view"
      android:padding="dp"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
      android:layout_centerVertical="true"
      tools:context=".MainActivity" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>Main activity:  (notice the </p>
  
  <pre><code>package com.font_test;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.graphics.Typeface;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.widget.TextView;
  
  public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  
      @Override
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
          final Typeface typeface = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/custom_fonts.ttf");
          final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.text_view);
          tv.setTypeface(typeface);
          tv.setTextSize(60);
          tv.setLineSpacing(-30f, 1f);  // *** -30 to reduce line spacing
          tv.setBackgroundColor(0x280000ff);
          tv.setText("gggkiiikkk" + "\n" + "gikgikgik" + "\n" + "kigkigkig");
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This results in truncation at the bottom of the view (notice the 'g' at the bottom line):</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2GOOT.png" alt="Reducing the line spacing cuts the &#39;g&#39; at the bottom line"></p>
  
  <p>It seems that the problem is related to incorrect layout measurement. If I set the TextView to</p>
  
  <pre><code> android:layout_height="fill_parent"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It does render properly:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zyEOW.png" alt="Using &#39;fill_parent&#39; does not truncate the bottom line"></p>
  
  <p>Any idea how to fix it? I don't mind to have ugly workarounds if it helps. I also have access to FontForge and I can modify the font file if needed.</p>