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authorLiang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io>2016-09-23 22:28:33 +0200
committerLiang Qi <liang.qi@qt.io>2016-09-23 22:28:33 +0200
commit680dd3313cd15ab4d9d6b8b3bde77aabbd8de0b0 (patch)
tree4e8f59ad3012be8aa844288bec9e6a8216ba6056 /src/gui/text/qrawfont.cpp
parentbde3384c9e3423b2b5fec565a32e49a1f796cd68 (diff)
parentd95cb94baa6302bea6ad57a9690453e9b618421e (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/5.6' into 5.7
Conflicts: src/corelib/global/qlogging.cpp Change-Id: I9cc8f25ad897efab6a42cb5c5161b1c9402952f0
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diff --git a/src/gui/text/qrawfont.cpp b/src/gui/text/qrawfont.cpp
index eadb65959a..88b9e218fb 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qrawfont.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qrawfont.cpp
@@ -317,6 +317,13 @@ bool QRawFont::operator==(const QRawFont &other) const
/*!
Returns the ascent of this QRawFont in pixel units.
+ The ascent of a font is the distance from the baseline to the
+ highest position characters extend to. In practice, some font
+ designers break this rule, e.g. when they put more than one accent
+ on top of a character, or to accommodate an unusual character in
+ an exotic language, so it is possible (though rare) that this
+ value will be too small.
+
\sa QFontMetricsF::ascent()
*/
qreal QRawFont::ascent() const
@@ -327,6 +334,11 @@ qreal QRawFont::ascent() const
/*!
Returns the descent of this QRawFont in pixel units.
+ The descent is the distance from the base line to the lowest point
+ characters extend to. In practice, some font designers break this rule,
+ e.g. to accommodate an unusual character in an exotic language, so
+ it is possible (though rare) that this value will be too small.
+
\sa QFontMetricsF::descent()
*/
qreal QRawFont::descent() const
@@ -337,6 +349,8 @@ qreal QRawFont::descent() const
/*!
Returns the xHeight of this QRawFont in pixel units.
+ This is often but not always the same as the height of the character 'x'.
+
\sa QFontMetricsF::xHeight()
*/
qreal QRawFont::xHeight() const
@@ -347,6 +361,8 @@ qreal QRawFont::xHeight() const
/*!
Returns the leading of this QRawFont in pixel units.
+ This is the natural inter-line spacing.
+
\sa QFontMetricsF::leading()
*/
qreal QRawFont::leading() const