Re: [ft] Vert advance on line break

[Werner LEMBERG]

> My quesiton is: How do I know how much to increase my Y position by
> for a new line (line break)?  I tried using
> [i]face->size->metrics.height[/i], but this seemed far too steep for
> some fonts (almost like the font was double-spaced), and simply
> doesn't exist at all (is zero) for many, many fonts such as Courier,
> which makes it completely useless for me.

>From the documentation of FT_FaceRec:

  height        

    The height is the vertical distance between two consecutive
    baselines, expressed in font units.  It is always positive.  Only
    relevant for scalable formats.

Or do you mean something different?


      Werner