Re: Ink and Logical rectangles in Pango

[Jyotirmoy Saikia <jyotirmoy_saikia yahoo com>]

--- Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk> wrote:
> The logical rectangle is the one you would use for
> layout

> The ink rectangle is the bounding box of the area
> that will actually
> contain ink. That is usually not the same as the
> logical
> rectangle. Consider the glyph 'g' for example. It
> descends below the
> baseline, so its ink rectangle will be bigger than
> its logical
> rectangle.

Thanks a lot. While browing the archive, I got a mail
posted in 2001 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2001-August/msg00325.html

There's some explanation of it with the 'g' character.
Is the explanation there correct?

Thanks.
Jyotirmoy


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Jyotirmoy Saikia
Specialist - Systems
PicoPeta Simputers Pvt Ltd
146, 5th Cross, RMV Extension, Bangalore-80

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