Re: font-size and accents, again

Erik van der Poel wrote:
>David Perrell wrote:
>>
>> Following is some selected data from the AFM file for Adobe's
>> Times Roman. The coordinate system for an Adobe font starts on
>> the baseline with up and right positive and is 1000 units per
>> em.
>>
>>   UnderlinePosition -98
>>   UnderlineThickness 54
>>   FontBBox -167 -252 1004 904
>>   CapHeight 673
>>   XHeight 445
>>   Descender -219
>>   Ascender 686
>
>Yes, this shows that the bbox is taller than the font size, and that
>ascender + descender is smaller than the font size (in this case). Is
>there also a field that indicates where the baseline lies in the em
>square?

Doesn't that kind of depend upon how you're defining the em square? :-)
How is zero relative to m, when m is relative to zero?

I think my brain just melted.


-boo

Received on Monday, 29 November 1999 13:32:50 UTC