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- From: James_Hastings-Trew@telepro.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: IV24 and OPALVISION owners
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- Message-ID: <James_Hastings-Trew.0hv2@telepro.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:04:25 CST
- Organization: TelePro Technologies
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- In a message dated Wed 22 Jul 92 5:45, Ttyytt@mixcom.com (adam Costello)
- wrote:
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- TC> I don't know who's right here, and I don't think these two are
- TC> understanding each other. I am curious about this though, so here is
- TC> a question which I'd like both to answer:
-
- TC> Suppose Font1 is a regular font, like Times, and Font2 is a font
- TC> whose
- TC> lower-case letters are represented as small upper-case letters. So
- TC> Font1 has descenders but Font2 doesn't. Are the upper-case E's from
- TC> "Font1 72" and "Font2 72" necessarily the same height? Or would the
- TC> E
- TC> from "Font2 72" be as tall as Eg from "Font1 72"?
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- The uppercase "E"s from Font1 and Font2 would be the same size, at a given
- point size. At 72 points, both would be 48 points tall.
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