Re: [ft] putting text in a box

[dave]

> Sorry for being imprecise.  A bbox consists of four values: The (x,y)
> values of the lower left (llx,lly) and the upper right (urx,ury)
> corner.  A box of a glyph with a descender looks like this:
>
>
>                        (urx,ury)
>            +----------+
>            |          |
>            |          |
>            |          |
>            |          |
>      ------+----------+------  baseline (y = 0)
>            |          |
>            +----------+
>   (llx,lly)
>
>
> If I say `a negative bbox value' I've meant that lly < 0; the
> descender is thus simply the value of lly.

ah, I see!  Thanks for the clarification.  I'll give that a try today. 
Sounds good.