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2:40:20
loke
jackdaniel: When you have time, I need some information from you. I have implemented the GLYPH-INFO-* methods for the feretype renderer, but it's not clear to me what the -TOP method should return.
9:05:43
jackdaniel
loke: ostensibly yes. it is distance between a baseline and the glyph pixarray bounding rectangle top (as of what is top depends how you look at it), note that it may be different than baseline for different transformations
13:13:36
loke
I'm not sure how to fix that. If you have a fork of a project, and you make one commit to it (which is later reverted so that the master is identical to the forked project aagin) then whenevr you branch off it and create a pull request, Github will list every single change since that original change
13:24:08
loke
jackdaniel: I've created a new branch on the main McCLIM repository and created a pull request from there instead.
13:32:33
jackdaniel
I usually perform rebase against target branch to reduce number of commits and then squash where appropriate
13:34:34
jackdaniel
if you have now access to all that information (most notably dx), then you may want to have a fast method for text-size
13:37:36
loke
jackdaniel: in freetype (or more accurately, Harfbuzz) a glyph location is not constant.
13:38:28
loke
The method string-to-clyph-list (or whatever it was called?) needs another argument: The text direction