>
> > I call this the correct way because I worked as a typesetter and in
> > printing
> > plants for more than 30 years and type size has never been measured
> > from the
> > baseline.
>
> It's been measured from baseline for 23 years on computers, and when
> *I* worked with typesetting, type height was always measured baseline-
> to-ascender.
Well, not in the professional printing and publishing world it isn't. When
PageMaker first came out in what, around 1985, they followed the printing
convention of measuring the "slug", i.e. the distance from descender to
ascender. Quark, which became the industry standard typesetting program by
1991 has also followed this procedure. I can't find any program (except RB)
that measures type sizes from the base line. Can you name one?
Don
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