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Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent
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Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent


  • Subject: Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent
  • From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:36:51 -0700


On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:20 PM, WT wrote:


On 24/06/2009, at 4:02 AM, Anders Lassen wrote:

The font descent is the maximum descent for all characters in that font, so it will not help me to position the character correct.


You know, I have no clue if this is going to help or not, because I have no experience whatsoever with typesetting systems (other than using them), but have you considered looking at the source code for TeX/LaTeX front-ends? I would suspect that they have to deal with the very issue you're dealing with. One of the best TeX front-ends for the Mac is TeXShop and it's open-source, so you should be able to peruse its source.

All TeXShop or another front end will do is run a TeX process (e.g., pdftex, xetex) on your TeX source, then display the result in a PDFView. You'd have to look at the TeX source to see what it does: http://xetex.sourceforge.net is one example.



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 >Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: Anders Lassen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: Anders Lassen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: "I. Savant" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: Anders Lassen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Problem: how to get glyph descent and ascent (From: WT <email@hidden>)

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