On 24 Mar 2007, at 11:20, chris wrote:

>> 4. Something else...
>
> Well out of curiousity I played around with the fl_height()  
> function in fl_font_xft.cxx. I had a look at the XftFont-Info and  
> saw that it has a member "height" also. I tried returning it  
> instead ascent+descent and the result on my linux-box is much  
> closer to the heights on the xp-box. Intesting because I expected  
> height to be just ascent+descent, but it is not.
>
> Just coincidence?

I used to know this stuff... I can't recall for certain, but I have  
an inkling that this is maybe an artefact of the different ways that  
X and Win32 interpret the hints in the fonts...
Or maybe it is just a coincidence, I can't be sure!
-- 
Ian

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