<div dir="ltr">I think I am missing something here.<div><br></div><div>if there are pixels out<span style="font-size:12.8px">side of the rectangle defined by the font ascent/descent and the width of</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">each character, doesn't that mean that those dimensions are wrong?</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Fixed and 'ink inside', sort of implies that ordinary fixed pitch fonts have ink outside those dimensions, which could cause trouble when putting them on the screen.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">is this some kind of special case used for a certain category of languages?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Chuck Pergiel<br>Silicon Forest<br><a href="http://www.pergelator.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.pergelator.blogspot.com</a><br>Sent from my Commodore-64 via a US Robotics 300 Baud Modem<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:58 AM, Keith Packard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithp@keithp.com" target="_blank">keithp@keithp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Chuck Pergiel <<a href="mailto:c.pergiel@gmail.com">c.pergiel@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> What the heck is a 'Character Cell' font and how is it different from the<br>
> other two kinds?<br>
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</span>Fixed and 'ink inside', which is to say that all of the lit pixels are<br>
inside a rectangle defined by the font ascent/descent and the width of<br>
each character.<br>
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-keith<br>
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