RE: positive descender with type1 fonts

[Fleischer, Karsten (K.)]

> > when using Type1 fonts with FreeType2-current (as of Sept. 5th) the
> > descender is set to a positive value.
> 
> I haven't looked into the specs yet, but I think positive descender
> values are correct -- for example, TeX also uses positive values.

Hm, but shouldn't it be consistent within FreeType, so that I don't have to
know which type of font I'm dealing with? In the FreeType documentation I
found the following definition:

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the descent 

the distance from the baseline to the lowest grid coordinate used to place
an outline point. This is a negative value, due to the grid's orientation.
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