Further to the above, I have been thinking about adding some titling capitals to the Poetry font.
I am wondering how big to make them.
The Poetry font has Win Ascent set at 2048 font units and Win Descent set at -1024 font units. Most ordinary capitals, such as H, go from 0 font units up to 1536 font units. Q goes from -384 font units to 1536 font units. M and N go from 0 font units up to 1664 font units.
The 1536 font units position is somewhat less than Win Ascent, yet that is deliberate so that there is space for accented versions of the ordinary capitals.
So from where to where, vertically, should a titling capital H go please?
If this were metal type it would be from something like the equivalent of from -512 font units up to 1536 font units, the glyphs also being wider, so that there would be larger letterforms on the same size of body.
Yet such a metal font would be free-standing, not connected with any lowercase characters. In this electronic font, the lowercase would be in the same font, hence my wondering what to do!
Readers following this thread yet who are not aware of the Poetry font may like to know that the font has its own thread in the Gallery forum, which thread includes a link to obtain a copy of the font.
William Overington
29 September 2008