Hi, On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 01:32:51AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > To put it another way: it´s a minor inconvinience to you, but I don´t > see how one could implement filters/render/fit-text with your proposed > semantics. I've tried to implement this thing, though I am not convinced that it is a minor inconvenience. Getting the ascent/descent of one font is no problem using gimp_text_get_extents. Getting the information if a given string has a ascent or descent _is_. I see three solutions: - "knowing" which letters have a descent|ascent. Bad if you have dif- ferent types of fonts. More important still this knowledge is ex- ternal. - using bitfiddling to see if there is a ascent or descent. - letting the gimp_text_get_extents return two additional fields, namely ($has_ascent,$has_descent). I favour the last ;) Martin -- http://www.dmcs.de/ mailto:mtvb@xxxxxxx Tel: 07 21/9 20 60-42 digital marketing concepts & services GmbH Fax: 07 21/9 20 60-30 martin:x:518:112:Martin Treusch von Buttlar:/home/martin:/usr/bin/perl
