RE: I cannot figure out where to put the baseline...

[Boris Letocha]

It is ascender. But in Times New Roman this value is smaller for same
European characters than Y Bearing, this is shit :-).
May be I sugest to add half of linegap (height-ascender-descender) *0.5 to
ascender and half add to descender and forget linegap ...
Also line size in text processor is 120% of height by standard(???).
Also problem is that some characters have negative X Bearing! eg. "j" in
Arial I think.

But Yes I wnat to hear some more qualified answer from authors of FreeType
...

Another answer for topic: Renderer?
In gray scale renderer you can specify span callback. But there is only one
done to grayscale bitmap ... So you have to write it yourself.

Boris Letocha

> I cannot figure out where to place the baseline 
> from the FreeType documentation. Once I know 
> where to place the baseline, it is simple enough 
> to calculate where to blit the character and where 
> to advance the pen.
> 
> If you want to write a text editor, you need to know 
> the distance from the top of the full character cell 
> down to the baseline (shown as "???" below). I cannot 
> find out how to figure out this value from the FreeType
> documentation. It certainly is not equal to the Y bearing
> of any character, and it certainly isn't equal to the 
> ascender for the character (since Y bearing is often
> greater than the ascender).
> 
> So how do I find out what it is? The documentation doesn't
> seem to tell you how to do this rather important thing.
> 
> ----------------------------------  -|
>                                      |
>                                      |
>          *         -|                |
>         * *         |                |
>        *   *        |                | ??? <---------
>       *     *       |Y Bearing       |
>      *********      |                |
>     *         *     |                |
>    *           *    |                |
>  +*             *  -|               -|
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> +   => Current pen position at baseline.
> ??? => Unknown distance that I need to know.