On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:37:00AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > The notion 'ascent above baseline' (positive upwards) and 'descent below > baseline' (positive downwards) is not mathed's invention (certainly not > mine).
Didn't say it was. > > + dim.asc = d.ascent() + d.descent() / 2; > > And that works? Yes, try it. (start from top of row, add half of the row height). > > cvs diff to two weeks ago yields: > > - i = (InsetCollapsable::ascent(bv, font) > - + InsetCollapsable::descent(bv, font)) / 2; > + dim.asc = d.height() / 2; > + dim.des = dim.asc; > > so this should be > > dim.asc = (d.ascent() + d.descent()) / 2 > > which _is_ equivalent to > > dim.asc = d.height() / 2 *shrug*. Too much has changed for me to play the "why" game. john