On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 02:42:11PM +0200, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > And, what about ParagraphMetrics.position_, ascent > and discent ? > > Ok, they're y coords, they represent the paragraph vertical > dimension and position, but I couldn't really figure out what > are they relative to, and why I always see in the code > *) position()-ascent() > *) position()+descent() > > Thanx again, bye,
Because we always measure from some base line, so the top of something would be y + asc, and the bottom y - des. Andre'
