tinne26
commented
1 year ago From https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/glyphs/glyphs-3.html, which is probably one of the best references on the topic available on the web:
Moreover, to render text, a virtual point, located on the baseline, called the pen position or origin, is used to locate glyphs.
In the comments of the x/image/font package, the term 'dot' is used as the origin position of rendering. I thought the 'dot' indicated the position of the glyph of the period
.(e.g. the center of the period glyph would be (0, 0)), but actually this was not with most fonts. Apparently, the dot indicates the origin position in this figure: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/TextFonts/Conceptual/CocoaTextArchitecture/Art/glyphterms_2x.png Is the 'dot' a usual term for typography? If not, I hope the comments would be updated to clarify the things./CC @nigeltao