Re: AFM font handling corrected?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Rune Zedeler wrote:
> 
> >> I just want to make sure if someone has looked at the handling
> >> of AFM font metrics files.
> 
> The problem (afaics) is that lilypond assumes that sizes are given in 
> 1/1000 points whereas they in fact ARE given in 1/1000 ems. (em is 
> defined as the width of "M". Though in the attached file, M has a width 
> of only 916.667 ...?!?!?!)
> Problem is that I don't know (don't understand) - given an afm - how to 
> determine em width.
> Anyone?

IIRC the 1000 in an AFM is relative to either the design size or the
baselineskip of the font. Isn't an em 10pt in cmr10? 



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