Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/08/08:45:24
In article <1998Jul7 DOT 113610 DOT 16036 AT catorobots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>,
neil AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (Neil Townsend) wrote:
> The other thing I noticed, which doubtless you are all aware of, is that PCX
> fonts drived from TTf fonts are quite high (especially using the DOS
> TTF2PCX), with (sensibly) space for accents and descenders. Under allegro,
> however, this information is not explicitly available (as far as I could
> see) and it would be useful for aligning certain forms of text. Well, I
> needed to know it anyway. So, in case it's of any use to anyone, here's a
I'd love to know it too. However there is nothing that I could find in the
Freetype docs or examples that tells how high and low a character has to be
so as not to cutt off accents and descenders. I just chose some values that
worked with the fonts that I had tried. It looks similar to the output of
the Windows TTF2PCX, which use some windows functions that (I assume) are
sensibly set.
Doug Eleveld
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