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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:27:07 -0500
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Subject: [9fans] font height.
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code2000 and cyberbit both have accented characters that are
taller than the nominal height of the font, like =C3=93.  unfortunately
the draw library, the frame library, rio and acme are not aware that
different characters in a font may have different heights.  thus characte=
rs
like =C3=93 are chopped off at the knees.  fonts like pelm solve this by=20
compressing the height of accented caps, an unattractive but effective
solution.

the obvious place to start in helping libdraw understand different
letter heights would be in in libdraw/stringwidth.c.  the function=20
_stringnwidth, should be replaced with _stringnsize, returning a Point.

but that's the easy part!  rio and acme have fine-tuned drawing routines
that make the assumption that fonts are fixed-height.

- erik