Bottom aligned text uses inconsistent baseline

• Dec 30, 2022 - 16:19
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
GitHub issue
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project

Inside a single vertical frame, add two separate texts with the same text properties, e.g. poet and composer. Both are bottom aligned.

The baseline position is different if the text has a character with descender, in this case the descender line is used for vertical alignment.

text alignment problem.png

Expected: It should be possible that two such texts use the same line for vertical alignment, either the typographical baseline or the descender. From Wikipedia:

Typography_Line_Terms.svg.png


Comments

Title Bottom aligned text considers descenders for baseline position Bottom aligned text uses inconsistent baseline
Reported version 4.x-dev 3.0

Confrimed, but the case since long

Regression No Yes

Apparently a 3.x regression

The natural choice of using baseline alignment doesn't help here, places the texts way too high