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PtextDescent

processing

Returns descent of the current font at its current size. This information is useful for determining the height of the font below the baseline. For example, adding the PtextAscent and PtextDescent values will give you the total height of the line.

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PtextDescent is available since version 1.0.0.

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Signatures

Examples

// @preview image 120 200 '2D' PGraphics 255 Pbackground //white 0xff0000ff Pstroke //blue 0xffff0000 Pfill //red 20 PtextSize //change this, text should be aligned to line 50 'y' STORE 0.8 'scalar' STORE PtextDescent $scalar * 'a' STORE 0 $y $a + 120 $y $a + Pline 'Warp 10' 10 $y Ptext //coordinates = bottom left 32 PtextSize //change this, text should be aligned to line 150 'y' STORE 0.8 'scalar' STORE PtextDescent $scalar * 'a' STORE 0 $y $a + 120 $y $a + Pline 'jump' 10 $y Ptext //coordinates = bottom left Pencode