On 3 August 2010 03:09, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Well I stand corrected :) Thanks for that clarification.
Best regards, Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, ing. jr (OIQ) Electrical engineering masters student, ETS (http://www.etsmtl.ca) Project AREXIMAS (http://areximas.etsmtl.ca)
