>> This is all moot. It was my error mixing up the glyph height with
>> the `height' value in FT_Face which actually is the
>> baseline-to-baseline distance.
>
> Reading between your lines: if some browser wants to get line
> spacing identical to Windows, it is not Freetype's business. We do
> not do text layouts. :)
Not at all: FreeType's `height' name is simply unfortunate. If you
use `ascender - descender' you get *exactly* what the Windows API
returns as `fsHeight' (i.e., the global glyph height), as far as I can
see.
Werner
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