I got the demo version to play around with and was looking for a way to create a glyph that is actually several lines high. Adjusting the descender metrics will adjust the entire font- not what I was after. Can a single character have an extreme descender value? I plan on using this type of glyph in a bulleted list only and it would be the only character on the line if that makes any difference. Something like:
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Not without getting clipped in most applications. Either use graphics for such characters so that text can wrap around them, or let them determine the default line-spacing for your font, and use fixed line spacing to keep regular sized text at the right specing.
The Gothic Drop Capital, Paragraph Leaders in my font Talapanna (like the A and M with the big descenders) when used with normal 10 point text single-line spacing would be spaced at 15 points per line, which is too wide, so I use the font with 12 point fixed line spacing, or 120% proportional line-spacing.
why no image showing up? size restriction?
Your image hosting service apparently does not allow linking from other websites. If you check with your ISP, you will probably have at least 20Mbytes of free server space that you can use to host your personal flles.
I like Bhikkhu Pesala’s answer of text wrap better but you could always create a separate font for these very large characters. This then throws only a single line wider than the others.
I like the idea of a separate font for these large characters. Not the answer I was looking for but I think it would be the easier approach.