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Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:21:23 +0100 (CET) |
>> This is all moot. It was my error mixing up the glyph height with
>> the `height' value in FT_Face which actually is the
>> baseline-to-baseline distance.
>
> Reading between your lines: if some browser wants to get line
> spacing identical to Windows, it is not Freetype's business. We do
> not do text layouts. :)
Not at all: FreeType's `height' name is simply unfortunate. If you
use `ascender - descender' you get *exactly* what the Windows API
returns as `fsHeight' (i.e., the global glyph height), as far as I can
see.
Werner
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, (continued)
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Infinality, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Infinality, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Wojciech Mamrak, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2013/01/23
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Wojciech Mamrak, 2013/01/24
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2013/01/24
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/01/24
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2013/01/24
- Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed,
Werner LEMBERG <=
Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, Alexei Podtelezhnikov, 2013/01/23
Re: [ft] [ft-devel] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed, David Turner, 2013/01/23