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-rw-r--r--src/gui/text/qfontmetrics.cpp18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/src/gui/text/qfontmetrics.cpp b/src/gui/text/qfontmetrics.cpp
index 341fd2a0e7..42c17ced58 100644
--- a/src/gui/text/qfontmetrics.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/text/qfontmetrics.cpp
@@ -261,9 +261,8 @@ bool QFontMetrics::operator ==(const QFontMetrics &other) const
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.
+ on top of a character, or to accommodate a certain character, so it
+ is possible (though rare) that this value will be too small.
\sa descent()
*/
@@ -298,8 +297,8 @@ int QFontMetrics::capHeight() const
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.
+ e.g. to accommodate a certain character, so it is possible (though
+ rare) that this value will be too small.
\sa ascent()
*/
@@ -1075,9 +1074,8 @@ bool QFontMetricsF::operator ==(const QFontMetricsF &other) const
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.
+ on top of a character, or to accommodate a certain character, so
+ it is possible (though rare) that this value will be too small.
\sa descent()
*/
@@ -1113,8 +1111,8 @@ qreal QFontMetricsF::capHeight() const
The descent is the distance from the base line to the lowest point
characters extend to. (Note that this is different from X, which
adds 1 pixel.) 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.
+ e.g. to accommodate a certain character, so it is possible (though
+ rare) that this value will be too small.
\sa ascent()
*/