Re: [Devel] Re: FIXED: viewing problems with CFF fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > We've finally decided to give descenders below the baseline a
> > negative value in FreeType (uniformly for all formats supported).
> > Maybe non-intuitive for font experts, it is the `natural' way for
> > most programmers/mathematicians etc.
> 
> I suppose; I'm not fond of taking an existing term and arbitrarily
> changing the meaning though.  For those without any typographical
> background, the surprise factor is not great, but anyone who has
> drawn text with other systems is going to be mystified for quite a
> while.

Note that TrueType font format always use *negative* values for
descenders below the base line (in the `hhea' table)!  So it is not an
ad-hoc decision.


    Werner