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- From: ttyytt@mixcom.com (Adam Costello)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: IV24 and OPALVISION owners
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.175331.11619@mixcom.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 17:53:31 GMT
- References: <James_Hastings-Trew.0hre@telepro.UUCP> <62516@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
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- >> M> A 72 point font should be 1" tall at 100%
- >> M> magnification.
- >>
- >>NOT. This is a common misconception. A capital letter "E" will be 2/3 of
- >>the given point size tall. That means that a 72 point letter is actually 48
- >>points tall - well short of 1". Just thought you'd like to know that... :)
- >
- > JE> Wrong, you just misrepresented the question and gave an incomplete
- > JE> answer.
- > JE> A 72 point font IS 1". Note that the term was FONT, NOT letter. The
- > JE> FONT
- > JE> includes the descender and full upercase letter - that comes to 1
- > JE> inch at 72
- > JE> points. Depending upon the font's style, your 2/3rds is also off
- > JE> base.
- > JE> Learn to read instead of trying to sound cool and hip.
- >
- >Actually, I wasn't trying to sound cool and hip. I was trying to correct a
- >misconception, one that I see you still have. You do not measure a letter's
- >point size by including ascenders and descenders, as there are no letters
- >that have both, and ascender and descender length are totally dependent
-
- I don't know who's right here, and I don't think these two are
- understanding each other. I am curious about this though, so here is
- a question which I'd like both to answer:
-
- Suppose Font1 is a regular font, like Times, and Font2 is a font whose
- lower-case letters are represented as small upper-case letters. So
- Font1 has descenders but Font2 doesn't. Are the upper-case E's from
- "Font1 72" and "Font2 72" necessarily the same height? Or would the E
- from "Font2 72" be as tall as Eg from "Font1 72"?
-
- AMC
-