Courier font sizing

Subject: Courier font sizing
From: "Steve Hudson" <steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:55:04 +1000

Stevo's Tip for the Week

We is very particular-like with our font settings. I have just made an
amazing discovery - quite unique in my experience. If you want to use a char
style of courier, vs arial or a number of other fonts, and NOT affect line
spacing, one needs the font.size to equal the font.size of the base text,
but RAISE it one point - in VBA this is font.position=1. Basically, courier
has a 1pt larger descender space, and a 1pt reduced ascender space than most
other fonts. I am used to fonts having a different font height: x-height
ratio, this is subtly different, and affects the space UNDER the line.

Steve Hudson
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies (Aus)
steve -at- wright -dot- com -dot- au
(612) 9518-1822
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