Re: [Devel] Metric for hat (^) vertical offset?

[George Williams]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 01:37, Rogier van Dalen wrote:

> > Hmmm. And would this be the correct bbox to put into the font in the
> > first place?
> 
> Not in TT fonts, I think: MS Font Validator does take empty contours into
> account.
Validator also calculates the bounding box based only on the on-curve
points in a glyph (assuming that there are points at all extrema). If I
were to take Validator as an absolute source of wisdom some fonts would
not print correctly.