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Ron Parker wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2000 04:16:07 -0500, Nieminen Juha wrote:
> >Jon A. Cruz <jon### [at] geocities com> wrote:
> >: And another issue (which I think was mentioned) is that without some patch,
> >: the macro would not have enough information on the characters in a string
> >: to place them correctly.
> >
> > Wouldn't the min_extent and max_extent functions in megapov help?
>
> Not entirely. Jon is going back to the kerning and character spacing issues
> that JR raised. There might also be some issues with descenders; that's
> something I haven't investigated fully.
Yes, kerning is one issue. And the baseline is a more obvious one.
This documentation on the Java font metrics class can be used to quickly see some
of the issues.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/api/java.awt.FontMetrics.html#_top_
Just imagine trying to line up "jal_^T" vertically using the extent functions.
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