Long description of illustration 'Inline alignment of glyphs with reduced font-size'

The words 'Ap' (Latin script), 'guru' (Gumurkhi script), 'Ex' (Latin) and 'ji' (Gumurkhi) in a row. 'Ex' and 'ji' have a reduced font size. While 'Ex' is still aligned on the alphabetic baseline, 'ji' is aligned on the hanging baseline.