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> I don't understand how anyone's trying to argue that there are languages that don't have obvious logical top/bottom boundaries (or right/left for vertical scr
by taejo 6y ago
> I don't understand how anyone's trying to argue that there are languages that don't have obvious logical top/bottom boundaries (or right/left for vertical scripts) for basing font metrics on.
I don't argue that at all. I agree that Arabic has ascent and descent. I just don't see that Arabic ascent corresponds to Latin cap height (rather than, say, Latin ascent).
- int_19h 6y agoThe argument that the article is, essentially, trying to make is that some such correspondence obviously does exist visually - i.e. that you can write e.g. English and Arabic text in the same line, sized such that they look the same size.