HP 5961-0509 manual Working with the Character Cell, Character Cell and HP-GL/2, Term Description

Working with the Character Cell

In each font, the basis for each character or space is the character cell. Think of the character cell as a rectangular area around a character that includes blank areas above and to the right of the character. Refer to the Figure 23-5.

Figure 23-5	The Character Cell and HP-GL/2
Table 23-5
Term		Description
Baseline		The imaginary line on which a line of text rests. A
		character’s descender (such as the bottom of a
		lowercase “g”) extends below the baseline.
Linefeed		The distance from the baseline of a line of text to
		the baseline of the next character line above or
		below. For most fonts, the linefeed is about 1.2
		times the point size (1.33 times the point size for
		Stick fonts).
Point Size		Traditional character measure roughly equivalent to
		the height of a capital letter M plus the depth of a
		descender.

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