On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:41:34 -0500, James Bursa wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 16:18 +0100, John-Mark Bell wrote:
> > >                                   if (!plot.text(x, y + (int)
> > >                                           (height * 0.75 * scale),
> >
> > This *0.75 malarky... If this is for RISC OS's
> > baseline-rather-than-top-left behaviour for font plotting, then why not
> > do it in the RISC OS frontend instead of here to be undone in all the
> > other frontends? Or am I simply mistaken?
> >
> > Since you're refactoring the font plotting API a bit, now is the time to
> > fix this particular nit.
> 
> Yes, that's what it's for. Unfortunately I think there is a complication. 
> Also 
> I can't find anywhere in the GTK code that undoes this so I think Pango also 
> plots at baseline.

Hmm, I'll have to change this in my code.  I don't think I'm plotting
at baseline and this might explain why I lose the odd pixel at the top
of characters on some occasions.

Chris

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