Mr. Jungk, you are quite right.
Mr. Austin, you should then check this reference.
May be it is just a misunderstanding with typographic vocabulary?
http://www.answers.com/typeface?cat=biz-fin
(I found that in seconds, there might be several other documentation
about the subject around the web)
---
As for Linux, we decided to postpone development on linux because we
rely heavily on g.stringWidth() and we are experiencing weird
behaviours on linux (ubuntu)
Might be related to the problem you describe or maybe because of
automatic font replacement (RB use a default font when you select a
missing/unavailable font)
When we will allocate time for that issue, I will relay our findings
(if any) to this forum...
Yours,
Alexandre
Le 07-07-30 à 13:03, realbasic-nug-request at lists dot realsoftware dot com a
écrit :
> Subject: Re: Linux Text Size
> To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Message-ID: <200707301110 dot 05262 dot rb at flippingdades dot com>
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>
>
>>
>>> 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?
>
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