Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux wrote: > However, if you measure the height of the capital M > or most other letters, you will notice that they are mostly the same. A 12 > pt font should be a 12 pt font.
Not quite. Traditionally, the font size includes some vertical whitespace (it derives from the height of the metal body in metal typesetting, not from the height of the characters; in digital typesetting, such extra whitespace is also often included in the metrics). So two 12pt fonts might well differ in character height. Jürgen
