Re: [clreq] Baseline (#634)

We need to be careful about what 'baseline' means.  CSS and other sources say that Han characters _do_ have a baseline, but it's an ideographic baseline (`ideo`) that runs below the Han character glyphs, and is somewhat lower than the English baseline (`romn`).  There are other types of baseline that that found in English text; northern Indian baselines are often said to be hanging and align with the top bar in certain scripts (`hang`). These baselines are used to relatively position the text in differing fonts in the vertical axis.

What _is_ true is that Han characters have no descenders.

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