Re: [ft] How to compute the baseline for for a font face?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:22:19 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote:

> I am aware of face->bbox and face->height but can't figure out the
> computation to figure out how far I should raise all characters so
> that the bottom of the lowest character (maybe a "g") will be just
> above the horizontal axis.

You want the FT_Face descender value
<https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_FaceRec>.

But be aware that this value, like the rest of the font metrics, is set
by the font designer to make the text lines look good overall, it won’t
necessarily guarantee that the text won’t get clipped.