Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am slowly working through all the places where small changes will be 
> needed to work with my text rotation feature.  Mostly it is straightforward.
> 
> Currently, I store the glyph advance as an (x,y) vector; the kerning 
> data already had (x,y) format; but I still have 1-dimensional values 
> for the ascender and descender and font-height values.
> 
> Consider code that is displaying several lines of text.  It needs to 
> know the line-to-line displacement, i.e. a vector form of the font 
> height.  So should the modified API return the font height as a vector, 
> or should the user be responsible for doing the necessary geometry?

Instead of a modified GetHeight() API I'd prefer a new GetLineOffset()
API or similar.

-- 
Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

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