Marc Lehmann <pcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> I must have misunderstood your problem: why do you want to know the ascent or
> the descent of a given string?
AFAIUTP, it isn't possible for a given text layer to tell where the baseline
is. So it isn't possible for different text layers to line up.
The ascent and descent are stupidly reported for the font, not the
given string.
jtl
