- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:30:49 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
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
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