[XeTeX] height and depth of characters

[Will Robertson]

On 26 Mar 2005, at 10:29 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
> I would certainly like to see a primitive to give height and depth of 
> a given character.

Out of interest, how were you thinking of using it?
I liked the idea of automatically scaling newly selected fonts to have 
matching x-heights with the surrounding text, and that's when I ran 
into the limitation.

Regards,
Will