The ascent is the distance from the baseline to the ascender line. The ascent usually represents the the height of the capital letters of the text. Some characters can extend above the ascender line. The descent is the distance from the baseline to the descender line. The descent usually represents the distance to the bottom of lower case letters like 'p'.
Some characters can extend below the descender line.
The leading is the recommended distance from the bottom of the descender line to the top of the next line. The height is equal to the sum of the ascent, the descent and the leading. The offsets are indexed by baseline index. Returns the thickness of the strike-through line. Overview Package Class Use Tree Deprecated Index Help Java TM 2 Platform Std.