Re: [ft] How to determine font ascent

[Anson]

On 10/12/05, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

The concept of `vertically centering' is wrong IMHO.  Instead, I
suggest you arrange the menu items as if they were normal text, this
is, you put the glyphs of a line onto its baseline, and the glyphs one
line above with a distance of FT_Face->height from the previous
baseline.  This assures that

Agree.  But the question is how we can accurately determine the
baseline to baseline distance.  In our environment we are not
supporting computers but devices with small display.  We would
also like to allow users to load their own font files as well. 
Hence we can't afford "silly" space left in-between text lines.