KaiMartin: Could you please check whether the alignment of text is correct in the PS output, or whether it exhibits the same behaviour?
DJ:
> Or better, just use the letter 'M' to determine middle alignment.
How is that "better"? That heuristic depends on the invalid assumption that the text uses the Latin alphabet.
Using the overall font metrics is the "right thing" here, but as usual we need to be careful not to gratuitously break everyone's existing schematics.
KaiMartin: Could you please check whether the alignment of text is correct in the PS output, or whether it exhibits the same behaviour?
DJ:
> Or better, just use the letter 'M' to determine middle alignment.
How is that "better"? That heuristic depends on the invalid assumption that the text uses the Latin alphabet.
Using the overall font metrics is the "right thing" here, but as usual we need to be careful not to gratuitously break everyone's existing schematics.