What is the font Richmond is trying to use? Having played around a lot with 
fonts in my early Mac days, I became aware that font foundries of lesser repute 
may not craft their fonts properly. If the line height and leading is not set 
to accomodate both the tallest ascender and the lowest descender can display 
incorrectly.

Bob S


On Dec 29, 2016, at 16:38 , Peter Bogdanoff 
<bogdan...@me.com<mailto:bogdan...@me.com>> wrote:

I tried with a field set to zapfino (the most vertically expansive font I have) 
14, text height 6.

I’m seeing that in LC 8.1.2 on Mac, that with the field fixed line height off 
things look right, showing wide line height and no attenuation. With fixed line 
height on, LC pushes all the text off the top of the field except for the 
bottom line and part of the second line from the bottom--where I see the 
descenders of the upper line overlapping the ascenders of the bottom line. 
Setting the line height to fixed 30, again pushes the text up off the field 
except for the last 1 1/2 lines—they are just spaced wider.

LC does have a problem with displaying this kind of text with fixed line height 
on, but I’m not seeing the chopping off of text, but the pushing text up the 
top of the field. With fixed line height off, it looks OK.

Peter Bogdanoff

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