> While using FreeType to render text in my software, I noticed that
> the ellipsis character is aligned with the midline of my text rather
> than the baseline.
>
> The ellipsis is identical in appearance to another glyph in the same
> font. The two code points are these:
>
> - U+2026: "…" Unicode 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS'
> - U+22EF: "⋯" Unicode 'MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS'
>
> It is unsurprising that these two code points share the same glyph,
> but their metrics ought to be different since they have different
> vertical positioning.
Yes.
> I am not surprised that height is the same for both codepoints since
> the resulting bitmaps are identical, but I would expect top to be
> different.
You mean `face->glyph->bitmap_top'?
> When I use these same code points in another program, they each
> display at their correct vertical positions, so I know the problem
> is with my code and not with the font. Am I supposed to obtain my
> metrics from something other than the sbit?
Stuff from the `FT_GlyphSlot' structure should be sufficient...
I suggest that you check the source code of the FreeType demo
programs.
Werner
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