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descender
| Last modified: Sunday, September 01, 1996
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In typography, the portion of a lowercase letter that falls below the baseline. In the English alphabet, 5 letters have descenders: g, j, p, q, and y.
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 Working with text in Java This page explains how to work with font metrics objects in Java, with particular emphasis on font ascenders and descenders.
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