Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Manuel Mall
What is the correct amount of baseline shift to apply for sub and super scripts? Batik seems to use +/- 0.5 * ascender height. Is that the common way of doing it? The spec says only: The offset ... is determined using the font data for the nominal font. Thanks Manuel

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
It's probably easiest for now to do as Batik does. However, Type 1 fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and placement) in the PFM file. That data is currently not parsed. I assume there's something similar in TrueType. So ideally, the font would supply the information how

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Manuel Mall
Vincent, does FOray font expose this type of information Jeremias described below? Manuel On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:36 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: It's probably easiest for now to do as Batik does. However, Type 1 fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and placement

Re: Sub and super scripts

2005-09-16 Thread Jeremias Maerki
, Type 1 fonts provide information about sub and super scripts (size and placement) in the PFM file. That data is currently not parsed. I assume there's something similar in TrueType. So ideally, the font would supply the information how exactly to handle super/sub script. But keeping it simple