+ // MSW accepts both positive and negative heights here but they mean
+ // different things: positive specifies the cell height while negative
+ // specifies the character height. We used to just pass the value to MSW
+ // unchanged but changed the behaviour for positive values in 2.9.1 to
+ // match other ports and, more importantly, the expected behaviour. So now
+ // passing the negative height doesn't make sense at all any more but we
+ // still accept it for compatibility with the existing code which worked
+ // around the wrong interpretation of the height argument in older wxMSW
+ // versions by passing a negative value explicitly itself.
+ lf.lfHeight = -abs(pixelSize.GetHeight());