Bill Goodman wrote:
> some of my code which needed the baseline for a calculation uses 
> hard coded values and there is the following comment:
>
> "Should use FntBaseLine to get this value but OS returns wrong value 
> for largeFont. Apparently, this is OS dependent, OS3 is supposed to 
> work correctly."

Thanks for the tip.  I tested this more, and found the largeFont
metrics are incorrect in all OS releases (including 3.3b6).  In 2.0 it
has ascent=9, descent=5, which is way off.  In 3.0 through 3.3 it is
ascent=12, descent=2.  So apparently somebody changed this for 3.0 but
it's still wrong.

-slj-

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