Determining font letter center

From	Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Determining font letter center
Date	2012-01-13 10:32 -0800
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How can I find out how high a letter is when using a particular font?
I am trying to place the center of capital letters at a specific
location.

The javadoc for FontMetrics says that getAscent() returns the distance
from the font's baseline to the top of most alphanumeric characters,
but that doesn't seem to be true.

For example, Font( "Serif", 1, 32 ) (serif font, bold, 32-points, its
FontMetric getAscent returns 33, but the height of every capital
letter is 21 pixels.

I have also tried to use the strikethroughOffset, but that is not in
the center of capital letters either.

--
Fred K

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Determining font letter center Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 10:32 -0800
  Re: Determining font letter center Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-13 13:49 -0500
    Re: Determining font letter center Fred <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-01-13 11:58 -0800
  Re: Determining font letter center Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-14 01:28 -0800

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