Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Vincent Hennebert
6.09.2005 09:08:24 Manuel Mall wrote: What is the correct amount of baseline shift to apply for sub and super scripts? Batik seems to use +/- 0.5 * ascender height. Is that the common way of doing it? The spec says only: "The offset ... is determined using the font data for the nominal fon

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
y easiest for now to do as Batik does. However, Type 1 > > fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and > > placement) in the PFM file. That data is currently not parsed. I > > assume there's something similar in TrueType. So ideally, the font > > w

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Manuel Mall
Vincent, does FOray font expose this type of information Jeremias described below? Manuel On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:36 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > It's probably easiest for now to do as Batik does. However, Type 1 > fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and >

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
It's probably easiest for now to do as Batik does. However, Type 1 fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and placement) in the PFM file. That data is currently not parsed. I assume there's something similar in TrueType. So ideally, the font would supply the infor

Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Manuel Mall
What is the correct amount of baseline shift to apply for sub and super scripts? Batik seems to use +/- 0.5 * ascender height. Is that the common way of doing it? The spec says only: "The offset ... is determined using the font data for the nominal font". Thanks Manuel