Re: [ft-devel] [ft] heads-up: TrueType height computation has been fixed

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> This is all moot.  It was my error mixing up the glyph height with
>> the `height' value in FT_Face which actually is the
>> baseline-to-baseline distance.
> 
> Reading between your lines: if some browser wants to get line
> spacing identical to Windows, it is not Freetype's business. We do
> not do text layouts. :)

Not at all: FreeType's `height' name is simply unfortunate.  If you
use `ascender - descender' you get *exactly* what the Windows API
returns as `fsHeight' (i.e., the global glyph height), as far as I can
see.


    Werner