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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: Interrogating a font
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 07:32:12 +0100
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On 27 Mar 2018, luser droog wrote:

> Since I cannot predict what pieces may be inaccessible
> in any given font dictionary I have tried to achieve
> my needs with ... programming. tada! So, the following
> incomplete program analyzes the paths produced in
> a few key glyphs (CHj) for ascender, descender, cap-height,
> italic-angle, and stem-v.

I had to do a similar kind of thing when I wanted to nestle letters
right up against each other. Glad to see it's working for you too.

-- Mark