Re: What characters have baseline?

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At 06:17 4/16/2002, Christopher J Fynn wrote:

>One thing an Indic script font gains from having support for the 'base'
>table is that when you have mixed point sizes of text on a single line, the
>two sizes of type align at the headline - rather than the smaller size type
>being lower in height (and thus not aligning).

Thanks, Chris. This makes sense.

John Hudson

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