From: D DOT J DOT Eleveld AT anest DOT azg DOT nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro / fonts - dumb new user seeks advice
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 12:25:05 GMT
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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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