- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:36:20 +0100
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On 13/10/2012 09:46, Anton Prowse wrote: > On 12/10/2012 22:52, "Gérard Talbot" wrote: >> Le Ven 12 octobre 2012 4:46, Anton Prowse a écrit : >>> >>> Now, there /is/ a descent >>> area somewhere... but there's nothing in it, so it's invisible ;-). In >>> fact, the descent area is precisely what bleeds out of the bottom of the >>> line box, as follows. >> >> Euh... no. In my mind, descent area is not bottom-half-leading here > > It is when the line box bottom edge coincides with the baseline, as in > your test case. To be precise, the bottom (and top) half leading is > negative but has the same magnitude as the descender space. Sorry, ignore that last clause of my second sentence. In the situation described, the half-leading of the strut (which is the distance between the bottom content edge of the descender space and the zero-height "guide box") is typically bigger in magnitude than the descender space (since in most fonts the descender space D is less than the characteristic height A above the baseline), and it is negative. My other statements in that post still stand. Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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