> It seems like the bounding box calculation is always correct. The
> problem is that the descender I'm querying is for the font face in
> general which I assume accounts for every glyph in the font.
If you have a negative value in the bbox, this is the amount below the
baseline.
> Any suggestions on computing the descenders for individual glyphs?
Calculate the bbox for individual glyphs. In most cases, a cbox
should be sufficient, BTW.
> I took a look at the glyph metrics from FreeType, but these didn't
> seem to help. For example, I found a case where "E" seemed to
> report a descender (comparing height and vertBearingY).
It's easily possible that the glyph `E' descends slightly (due to
serifs, for example).
Werner
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