Re: Thai fonts small compared to regular characters
- From: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep linux thai net>
- To: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- Cc: gtk-i18n-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Thai fonts small compared to regular characters
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:37:02 +0700
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:15:11AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> But for independent fonts, why isn't it possible to simply make the
> ascent/descent/line-larger with respect to the EM square for Thai fonts
> than for Latin fonts?
>
> That is, a 10pt Latin font might have a line spacing of 13 points, while
> a 10pt Thai font could have a line spacing of 17 points. That shouldn't
> cause any clipping problems.
Do you mean, for example, EM = 1000, asc = 1040, desc = 260?
Is this possible? (FontForge seems to prohibit asc + desc > EM.)
Or do you mean other metrics?
-Thep.
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Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/
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