Greg Brown wrote: >> It's an offset from the top of the component, where -1 indicates no >> baseline. > > Might it simplify the code if we defined it as an offset from the > bottom of the component, where 0 means no baseline? > I picked the convention that matched the approach Swing used for their baseline support (in 1.6), and the coordinate system used in AWT's Graphics2D class. It doesn't make much difference to the complexity of the code.
