Re: font-size and accents, again

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> 
> Also, the negative lfHeight thing in Windows is pretty strange, right?
> They probably started with positive lfHeights that meant the bounding
> box, and then, when they discovered that digital font designers prefer
> to use the em square for sizing, they had to come up with some way to
> accommodate the font designers and still remain compatible with old
> apps. So they came up with the hack of using negative lfHeight to mean
> the (negative of) the em square height. Would any Windows people like to
> confirm my speculation?

Confirmed:

  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2000JanMar/0099.html

Erik