I think I am missing something here. if there are pixels outside of the rectangle defined by the font ascent/descent and the width of each character, doesn't that mean that those dimensions are wrong?
Fixed and 'ink inside', sort of implies that ordinary fixed pitch fonts have ink outside those dimensions, which could cause trouble when putting them on the screen. is this some kind of special case used for a certain category of languages? Chuck Pergiel Silicon Forest www.pergelator.blogspot.com Sent from my Commodore-64 via a US Robotics 300 Baud Modem On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> wrote: > Chuck Pergiel <c.perg...@gmail.com> writes: > > > What the heck is a 'Character Cell' font and how is it different from the > > other two kinds? > > Fixed and 'ink inside', which is to say that all of the lit pixels are > inside a rectangle defined by the font ascent/descent and the width of > each character. > > -- > -keith >
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