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-version 2.1</h2></center>
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+ Version 2.1
+</h2>
-<center>
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-Copyright 1998-2000 David Turner (<a href="mailto:david@freetype.org">david@freetype.org</a>)<br>
-Copyright 2000 The FreeType Development Team (<a href="devel@freetype.org">devel@freetype.org</a>)</h3></center>
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-III. Glyph metrics
-</h2></td></tr></table>
-
-<h3><a name="section-1">
-1. Baseline, Pens and Layouts
-</h3><blockquote>
-
-<p>The baseline is an imaginary line that is used to "guide" glyphs when
-rendering text. It can be horizontal (e.g. Roman, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.)
-or vertical (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc). Moreover, to render
-text, a virtual point, located on the baseline, called the "pen position"
-or "origin", is used to locate glyphs.
-</p>
-
-<p>Each layout uses a different convention for glyph placement:</p>
-<ul>
- <li>
- with horizontal layout, glyphs simply "rest" on the baseline. Text
- is rendered by incrementing the pen position, either to the right or
- to the left.
- </li>
-
-
- <p>the distance between two successive pen positions is glyph-specific
- and is called the <b>advance width</b>. Note that its value is _always_
- positive, even for right-to-left oriented alphabets, like Arabic. This
- introduces some differences in the way text is rendered.
- </p>
-
- <p>IMPORTANT NOTE: The pen position is always placed on the baseline.
- </p>
-
- <p><center><img SRC="Image1.png" height=179 width=458></center></p>
-
-
- <li>with a vertical layout, glyphs are centered around the baseline:</li>
-
- <p><center><img SRC="Image2.png" height=275 width=162></center></p>
-
-</ul>
-
-</blockquote><h3><a name="section-2">
-2. Typographic metrics and bounding boxes
-</h3><blockquote>
-
-<p>A various number of face metrics are defined for all glyphs in a given
-font.</p>
-
-<p><b>the ascent</b></p>
-<ul>
-<p>this is the distance from the baseline to the highest/upper grid coordinate
-used to place an outline point. It is a positive value, due to the grid's
-orientation with the Y axis upwards.
-</p>
-</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the descent</b></p>
-<ul><p>
-the distance from the baseline to the lowest grid coordinate used to
-place an outline point. This is a negative value, due to the grid's
-orientation.
-</p></ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the linegap</b>
-<ul>the distance that must be placed between two lines of text. The baseline-to-baseline
-distance should be computed as:
-<center>
-<p><tt>ascent - descent + linegap</tt></center>
-if you use the typographic values.</ul>
-Other, simpler metrics are:
-<p><b>the glyph's bounding box</b>, also called "<b>bbox</b>"
-<ul>this is an imaginary box that encloses all glyphs from the font, as
-tightly as possible. It is represented by four fields, namely <tt>xMin</tt>,
-<tt>yMin</tt>,
-<tt>xMax</tt>,
-and <tt>yMax</tt>, that can be computed for any outline. Their values can
-be in font units (if measured in the original outline) or in fractional/integer
-pixel units (when measured on scaled outlines).
-<p>Note that if it wasn't for grid-fitting, you wouldn't need to know a
-box's complete values, but only its dimensions to know how big is a glyph
-outline/bitmap. However, correct rendering of hinted glyphs needs the preservation
-of important grid alignment on each glyph translation/placement on the
-baseline.</ul>
-<b>the internal leading</b>
-<ul>this concept comes directly from the world of traditional typography.
-It represents the amount of space within the "leading" which is reserved
-for glyph features that lay outside of the EM square (like accentuation).
-It usually can be computed as:
-<center>
-<p><tt>internal leading = ascent - descent - EM_size</tt></center>
-</ul>
-<b>the external leading</b>
-<ul>this is another name for the line gap.</ul>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="section-3">
-3. Bearings and Advances</h3>
-
-<ul>Each glyph has also distances called "bearings" and "advances". Their
-definition is constant, but their values depend on the layout, as the same
-glyph can be used to render text either horizontally or vertically:
-<p><b>the left side bearing: a.k.a. bearingX</b>
-<ul>this is the horizontal distance from the current pen position to the
-glyph's left bbox edge. It is positive for horizontal layouts, and most
-generally negative for vertical one.</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the top side bearing: a.k.a. bearingY</b>
-<ul>this is the vertical distance from the baseline to the top of the glyph's
-bbox. It is usually positive for horizontal layouts, and negative for vertical
-ones</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the advance width: a.k.a. advanceX</b>
-<ul>is the horizontal distance the pen position must be incremented (for
-left-to-right writing) or decremented (for right-to-left writing) by after
-each glyph is rendered when processing text. It is always positive for
-horizontal layouts, and null for vertical ones.</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the advance height: a.k.a. advanceY</b>
-<ul>is the vertical distance the pen position must be decremented by after
-each glyph is rendered. It is always null for horizontal layouts, and positive
-for vertical layouts.</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the glyph width</b>
-<ul>this is simply the glyph's horizontal extent. More simply it is (bbox.xMax-bbox.xMin)
-for unscaled font coordinates. For scaled glyphs, its computation requests
-specific care, described in the grid-fitting chapter below.</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the glyph height</b>
-<ul>this is simply the glyph's vertical extent. More simply, it is (bbox.yMax-bbox.yMin)
-for unscaled font coordinates. For scaled glyphs, its computation requests
-specific care, described in the grid-fitting chapter below.</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>the right side bearing</b>
-<ul>is only used for horizontal layouts to describe the distance from the
-bbox's right edge to the advance width. It is in most cases a non-negative
-number.</ul>
-
-<center><tt>advance_width - left_side_bearing - (xMax-xMin)</tt></center>
-
-<p>Here is a picture giving all the details for horizontal metrics :
-<center>
-<p><img SRC="Image3.png" height=253 width=388></center>
+<h3 align=center>
+ Copyright 1998-2000 David Turner (<a
+ href="mailto:david@freetype.org">david@freetype.org</a>)<br>
+ Copyright 2000 The FreeType Development Team (<a
+ href="mailto:devel@freetype.org">devel@freetype.org</a>)
+</h3>
-<p>And here is another one for the vertical metrics :
<center>
-<p><img SRC="Image4.png" height=278 width=294></center>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="section-4">
-4. The effects of grid-fitting</h3>
-
-<ul>Because hinting aligns the glyph's control points to the pixel grid,
-this process slightly modifies the dimensions of character images in ways
-that differ from simple scaling.
-<p>For example, the image of the lowercase "m" letter sometimes fits a
-square in the master grid. However, to make it readable at small pixel
-sizes, hinting tends to enlarge its scaled outline in order to keep its
-three legs distinctly visible, resulting in a larger character bitmap.
-<p>The glyph metrics are also influenced by the grid-fitting process. Mainly
-because :
-<br>
-<ul>
-<li>
-The image's width and height are altered. Even if this is only by one pixel,
-it can make a big difference at small pixel sizes</li>
-
-<li>
-The image's bounding box is modified, thus modifying the bearings</li>
-
-<li>
-The advances must be updated. For example, the advance width must be incremented
-when the hinted bitmap is larger than the scaled one, to reflect the augmented
-glyph width.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><br>Note also that :
-<br>
-<ul>
-<li>
-Because of hinting, simply scaling the font ascent or descent might not
-give correct results. A simple solution consists in keeping the ceiling
-of the scaled ascent, and floor of the scaled descent.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>
-There is no easy way to get the hinted glyph and advance widths of a range
-of glyphs, as hinting works differently on each outline. The only solution
-is to hint each glyph separately and record the returned values. Some formats,
-like TrueType, even include a table of pre-computed values for a small
-set of common character pixel sizes.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>
-Hinting depends on the final character width and height in pixels, which
-means that it is highly resolution-dependent. This property makes correct
-WYSIWYG layouts difficult to implement.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><br><b>IMPORTANT NOTE:</b>
-<br>Performing 2D transforms on glyph outlines is very easy with FreeType.
-However, when using translation on a hinted outlines, one should aways
-take care of <b>exclusively using integer pixel distances</b> (which
-means that the parameters to the FT_Translate_Outline API should all be
-multiples of 64, as the point coordinates are in 26.6 fixed float format).
-<p><b>Otherwise</b>, the translation will simply <b>ruin the hinter's work</b>,
-resulting in a very low quality bitmaps.
-<br>
-<br> </ul>
-
-<h3><a name="section-5">
- 5. Text widths and bounding box :</h3>
-
-<ul>As seen before, the "origin" of a given glyph corresponds to the position
-of the pen on the baseline. It is not necessarily located on one of the
-glyph's bounding box corners, unlike many typical bitmapped font formats.
-In some cases, the origin can be out of the bounding box, in others, it
-can be within it, depending on the shape of the given glyph.
-<p>Likewise, the glyph's "advance width" is the increment to apply to the
-pen position during layout, and is not related to the glyph's "width",
-which really is the glyph's bounding width.
-<br>
-<p>The same conventions apply to strings of text. This means that :
-<br>
-<ul>
-<ul>
-<li>
-The bounding box of a given string of text doesn't necessarily contain
-the text cursor, nor is the latter located on one of its corners.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>
-The string's advance width isn't related to its bounding box's dimensions.
-Especially if it contains beginning and terminal spaces or tabs.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>
-Finally, additional processing like kerning creates strings of text whose
-dimensions are not directly related to the simple juxtaposition of individual
-glyph metrics. For example, the advance width of "VA" isn't the sum of
-the advances of "V" and "A" taken separately.</li>
-</ul>
-</ul>
-</ul>
-</ul>
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+ valign=center><td>
+ <h2>
+ III. Glyph metrics
+ </h2>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <a name="section-1">
+ <h3>
+ 1. Baseline, pens and layouts
+ </h3>
+
+ <p>The baseline is an imaginary line that is used to "guide" glyphs when
+ rendering text. It can be horizontal (e.g. Roman, Cyrillic, Arabic,
+ etc.) or vertical (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc). Moreover, to
+ render text, a virtual point, located on the baseline, called the <em>pen
+ position</em> or <em>origin</em>, is used to locate glyphs.</p>
+
+ <p>Each layout uses a different convention for glyph placement:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p>With horizontal layout, glyphs simply "rest" on the baseline.
+ Text is rendered by incrementing the pen position, either to the
+ right or to the left.</p>
+
+ <p>The distance between two successive pen positions is
+ glyph-specific and is called the <em>advance width</em>. Note that
+ its value is <em>always</em> positive, even for right-to-left
+ oriented alphabets, like Arabic. This introduces some differences
+ in the way text is rendered.</p>
+
+ <p><em>The pen position is always placed on the baseline.</em></p>
+
+ <p><center>
+ <img src="Image1.png"
+ height=179 width=458
+ alt="horizontal layout">
+ </center></p>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <p>With a vertical layout, glyphs are centered around the
+ baseline:</p>
+
+ <p><center>
+ <img src="Image2.png"
+ height=275 width=162
+ alt="vertical layout">
+ </center></p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+
+ <a name="section-2">
+ <h3>
+ 2. Typographic metrics and bounding boxes
+ </h3>
+
+ <p>A various number of face metrics are defined for all glyphs in a
+ given font.</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Ascent</em></p>
+
+ <p>The distance from the baseline to the highest/upper grid
+ coordinate used to place an outline point. It is a positive value,
+ due to the grid's orientation with the <i>Y</i> axis
+ upwards.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Descent</em></p>
+
+ <p>The distance from the baseline to the lowest grid coordinate used
+ to place an outline point. This is a negative value, due to the
+ grid's orientation.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Linegap</em></p>
+
+ <p>The distance that must be placed between two lines of text. The
+ baseline-to-baseline distance should be computed as:
+
+ <center><p>
+ <tt>ascent - descent + linegap</tt>
+ </p></center>
+
+ <p>if you use the typographic values.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Other, simpler metrics are:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><em>The glyph's bounding box</em>, also called <em>bbox</em></p>
+
+ <p>This is an imaginary box that encloses all glyphs from the font,
+ usually as tightly as possible. It is represented by four fields,
+ namely <tt>xMin</tt>, <tt>yMin</tt>, <tt>xMax</tt>, and
+ <tt>yMax</tt>, that can be computed for any outline. Their values
+ can be in font units (if measured in the original outline) or in
+ fractional/integer pixel units (when measured on scaled
+ outlines).</p>
+
+ <p>Note that if it wasn't for grid-fitting, you wouldn't need to
+ know a box's complete values, but only its dimensions to know how
+ big is a glyph outline/bitmap. However, correct rendering of hinted
+ glyphs needs the preservation of important grid alignment on each
+ glyph translation/placement on the baseline.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Internal leading</em></p>
+
+ <p>This concept comes directly from the world of traditional
+ typography. It represents the amount of space within the
+ <em>leading</em> which is reserved for glyph features that lay
+ outside of the EM square (like accentuation). It usually can be
+ computed as:</p>
+
+ <center><p>
+ <tt>internal leading = ascent - descent - EM_size</tt>
+ </p></center>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>External leading</em></p>
+
+ <p>This is another name for the line gap.</p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+
+ <a name="section-3">
+ <h3>
+ 3. Bearings and Advances
+ </h3>
+
+ Each glyph has also distances called <em>bearings</em> and
+ <em>advances</em>. Their definition is constant, but their values
+ depend on the layout, as the same glyph can be used to render text
+ either horizontally or vertically:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Left side bearing</em> or <em>bearingX</em></p>
+
+ <p>The horizontal distance from the current pen position to the
+ glyph's left bbox edge. It is positive for horizontal layouts, and
+ in most cases negative for vertical one.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Top side bearing</em> or <em>bearingY</em></p>
+
+ <p>The vertical distance from the baseline to the top of the glyph's
+ bbox. It is usually positive for horizontal layouts, and negative
+ for vertical ones</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Advance width</em> or <em>advanceX</em></p>
+
+ <p>The horizontal distance the pen position must be incremented (for
+ left-to-right writing) or decremented (for right-to-left writing) by
+ after each glyph is rendered when processing text. It is always
+ positive for horizontal layouts, and null for vertical ones.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Advance height</em> <em>advanceY</em></p>
+
+ <p>The vertical distance the pen position must be decremented by
+ after each glyph is rendered. It is always null for horizontal
+ layouts, and positive for vertical layouts.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Glyph width</em></p>
+
+ <p>The glyph's horizontal extent. For unscaled font coordinates, it
+ is <tt>bbox.xMax-bbox.xMin</tt>. For scaled glyphs, its computation
+ requests specific care, described in the grid-fitting chapter
+ below.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Glyph height</em>
+
+ <p>The glyph's vertical extent. For unscaled font coordinates, it is
+ <tt>bbox.yMax-bbox.yMin</tt>. For scaled glyphs, its computation
+ requests specific care, described in the grid-fitting chapter
+ below.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <p><em>Right side bearing</em></p>
+
+ <p>Only used for horizontal layouts to describe the distance from
+ the bbox's right edge to the advance width. It is in most cases a
+ non-negative number:</p>
+
+ <p><center>
+ <tt>advance_width - left_side_bearing - (xMax-xMin)</tt>
+ </center></p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Here is a picture giving all the details for horizontal metrics:
+
+ <center><p>
+ <img src="Image3.png"
+ height=253 width=388
+ alt="horizontal glyph metrics">
+ </p></center>
+
+ <p>And here is another one for the vertical metrics:</p>
+
+ <center><p>
+ <img src="Image4.png"
+ height=278 width=294
+ alt="vertical glyph metrics">
+ </p></center>
+
+
+ <a name="section-4">
+ <h3>
+ 4. The effects of grid-fitting
+ </h3>
+
+ <p>Because hinting aligns the glyph's control points to the pixel grid,
+ this process slightly modifies the dimensions of character images in
+ ways that differ from simple scaling.</p>
+
+ <p>For example, the image of the lowercase "m" letter sometimes fits a
+ square in the master grid. However, to make it readable at small pixel
+ sizes, hinting tends to enlarge its scaled outline in order to keep its
+ three legs distinctly visible, resulting in a larger character
+ bitmap.</p>
+
+ <p>The glyph metrics are also influenced by the grid-fitting process:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ The image's width and height are altered. Even if this is only by
+ one pixel, it can make a big difference at small pixel sizes.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ The image's bounding box is modified, thus modifying the bearings.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ The advances must be updated. For example, the advance width must
+ be incremented if the hinted bitmap is larger than the scaled one,
+ to reflect the augmented glyph width.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>This has some implications:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ Because of hinting, simply scaling the font ascent or descent might
+ not give correct results. A possible solution is to keepthe ceiling
+ of the scaled ascent, and floor of the scaled descent.
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ There is no easy way to get the hinted glyph and advance widths of a
+ range of glyphs, as hinting works differently on each outline. The
+ only solution is to hint each glyph separately and record the
+ returned values. Some formats, like TrueType, even include a table
+ of pre-computed values for a small set of common character pixel
+ sizes.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Hinting depends on the final character width and height in pixels,
+ which means that it is highly resolution-dependent. This property
+ makes correct WYSIWYG layouts difficult to implement.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+
+ <em>
+ <p>Performing 2D transformations on glyph outlines is very easy with
+ FreeType. However, when using translation on a hinted outlines, one
+ should aways take care of <b>exclusively using integer pixel
+ distances</b> (which means that the parameters to the
+ <tt>FT_Translate_Outline()</tt> API should all be multiples
+ of 64, as the point coordinates are in 26.6 fixed float
+ format).</p>
+
+ <p>Otherwise, the translation will simply <em>ruin the hinter's
+ work</em>, resulting in a very low quality bitmaps!</p>
+ </em>
+
+
+ <a name="section-5">
+ <h3>
+ 5. Text widths and bounding box
+ </h3>
+
+ <p>As seen before, the "origin" of a given glyph corresponds to the
+ position of the pen on the baseline. It is not necessarily located on
+ one of the glyph's bounding box corners, unlike many typical bitmapped
+ font formats. In some cases, the origin can be out of the bounding box,
+ in others, it can be within it, depending on the shape of the given
+ glyph.</p>
+
+ <p>Likewise, the glyph's "advance width" is the increment to apply to
+ the pen position during layout, and is not related to the glyph's
+ "width", which really is the glyph's bounding width.
+
+ <p>The same conventions apply to strings of text. This means that:
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ The bounding box of a given string of text doesn't necessarily
+ contain the text cursor, nor is the latter located on one of its
+ corners.
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ The string's advance width isn't related to its bounding box
+ dimensions. Especially if it contains beginning and terminal spaces
+ or tabs.
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ Finally, additional processing like kerning creates strings of text
+ whose dimensions are not directly related to the simple
+ juxtaposition of individual glyph metrics. For example, the advance
+ width of "VA" isn't the sum of the advances of "V" and "A" taken
+ separately.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
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