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-