- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:26:29 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>, fahrner@pobox.com, www-style@w3.org
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
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