Underline is not positioned as per metrics

[Andredu]

Publisher draws the underline  right under baseline zero (0) of the characters yet my metrics has positioned the underline at (minus) -145, is this a bug ?   Pages places the underline correctly.

Thanks,

Andredu

 

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[Andredu]

Hello Lagarto, the font is a custom font created with FontLab 7 (v 7.1.0  latest version) I'm attaching a screen grab of the underscore glyph,  as you can see it is positioned at -145. I'm attaching a screen grab from Publisher and another one from Pages.

Thanks,

Andredu

 

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[Andredu]

OK I see your point, « underlining is not directly related to the underscore » I used the underlining functions from Pages and same in Publisher. 

But then if it's not related to a font's underscore glyph metric, how can I set it  to a lower position in Publisher ? Why is it different in Pages ?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

Comparing the two sets of screenshots, I think you need to adjust the U-position, @Andredu.

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[Andredu]

Thanks Walt and Lagarto, YES the problem was the U-position which was set at zero, resetting it at -100 solved the problem.

I learned that Unicode 005F does not determine the underlining position used by a publishing program. I didn't test it but it seems that most fonts do support 005F.

Andredu

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