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

[Keith Packard]

> 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.

I guess we'll get over it.

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