Pango.ASCENT
Description: Reference for Pango.ASCENT

### Function Macro

# PangoASCENT

#### Declaration [src]

    #define PANGO_ASCENT (
      rect
    )

#### Description [src]

Extracts the ascent from a `PangoRectangle` representing glyph extents.

The ascent is the distance from the baseline to the highest point of the character. This is positive if the glyph ascends above the baseline.

This function is not directly available to language bindings

#### Parameters

`rect` | `-`
| A `PangoRectangle`