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Re: Linux Text Size

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Subject: Re: Linux Text Size
From: Don Jungk <rb at flippingdades dot com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:33:31 -0500
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> Too bad that none of the "references" quoted actually deal with
> anything outside of the Roman character set.  Diacriticals ALWAYS
> occupy space above the Capital, and are included in the "point size"
> calculation.

I've seen a lot of fonts where the capitals with accents are shortened to 
allow for the accent. (I work a lot in Spanish) I've also seen a number of 
characters (Swashes, Italics, etc.) that purposely print outside the bounding 
box of the character.
>
> If they did, you'd find that the point size *includes* the
> diacritical area, but does NOT include the descender -- at least on
> computers.

This still doesn't address the fact that a 72 point Helvetica capital H comes 
out 72 points high when set in RB for Linux and comes out 51 points high when 
set in every other program, including all of those you listed.

That's why I filed the bug report.

Don
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