[texhax] font metrics

[Chris Rowley]

Jimmy

> some of the font formats they give `the angle in counter clockwise degrees 
> from the vertical'.  Should it be considered as the same thing as our slant 
> parameter in tex.

Not quite, they are related as follows:

PS angle has the opposite sign to the TeX angle;

PS measures the angle using degrees, TeX measures it by its tangent
(for typical values these two are roughly proportional measures).

Do you need the approximate formula connecting them?


chris