- From: Koji Ishii via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:27:55 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> Or do ascent and descent somehow mean left and right in that context? Exactly. Fonts can have horizontal and vertical metrics. In vertical metrics, baseline is vertical, at the middle of the glyph, and the right half is still called ascent. See the chart in [this page at Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/gpos.htm). Or the chart in [kanji-database](http://kanji-database.sourceforge.net/fonts/opentype.html) (find a big chat of "漢") has "ascender" and "descender", though, it's Kanji character so maybe a little hard to understand how to apply it to Latin characters. At the bottom of [6.3. Line-relative Directions](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes-3/#line-directions) has a picture of baseline in vertical metrics when I got the same question before. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kojiishi Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/651#issuecomment-257899626 using your GitHub account
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