On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 01:46:34 +0000, Dryden, Thomas wrote:

> My second question below is with regards to handling comma, and
> parenthesis. Looking at the metrics, it's not clear to me how to
> detect that they need to be pushed up 3 pixels. The comma has a
> positive horizontal bearing Y, which surprised me??

The appearance and metrics are very much up to the font designer. They
adjust and position things in order to make the overall layout look good
in lines of text. If you try to second-guess them with your own glyph
adjustments, you are just likely to make things look worse.

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