diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2583f3b..ae574c4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 PACKAGE=pdfminer
 PREFIX=/usr/local
 
-SVN=svn
 PYTHON=python
 RM=rm -f
 CP=cp -f
@@ -22,8 +21,6 @@ clean:
 
 distclean: clean test_clean cmap_clean
 
-commit: distclean
-	$(SVN) commit
 pack: distclean
 	$(PYTHON) setup.py sdist
 register: distclean
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 227732d..08b4a85 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Python PDF parser and analyzer
 
 <div align=right class=lastmod>
 <!-- hhmts start -->
-Last Modified: Sat Apr 24 04:30:10 UTC 2010
+Last Modified: Mon May 10 23:02:20 UTC 2010
 <!-- hhmts end -->
 </div>
 
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ PDF parser that can be used for other purposes instead of text analysis.
 <li> Reconstruct the original layout by grouping text chunks.
 </ul>
 <p>
-On the performance, PDFMiner is about 20 times slower than 
+On the performance side, 
+PDFMiner is about 20 times slower than 
 other C/C++-based software such as XPdf.
 
 <a name="source"></a>
diff --git a/docs/usage.html b/docs/usage.html
index b1b5677..6d1cdf5 100644
--- a/docs/usage.html
+++ b/docs/usage.html
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ for page in doc.get_pages():
 </pre></blockquote>
 
 <p>
-In PDFMiner, there are several objects involved in parsing a PDF file,
+In PDFMiner, there are several Python classes involved in parsing a PDF file,
 as shown in Figure 1.
 
 <div>
@@ -68,7 +68,12 @@ as shown in Figure 1.
 <hr noshade>
 <h2>Accessing Layout Objects</h2>
 <p>
-PDFMiner performs a basic layout analysis.
+PDF documents are more like graphics, rather than text documents.
+It presents no logical structure such as sentences or paragraphs (for most cases).
+PDFMiner tries to reconstruct the original structure by performing
+basic layout analysis.
+<p>
+
 
 <blockquote><pre>
 from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
diff --git a/pdfminer/converter.py b/pdfminer/converter.py
index 6264750..a6df07c 100644
--- a/pdfminer/converter.py
+++ b/pdfminer/converter.py
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ class PDFLayoutAnalyzer(PDFTextDevice):
             self.cur_item.add(LTPolygon(gstate.linewidth, pts))
         return
 
-    def render_char(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, cid):
-        item = LTChar(matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, cid)
+    def render_char(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid):
+        item = LTChar(matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid)
         self.cur_item.add(item)
         return item.adv
 
diff --git a/pdfminer/layout.py b/pdfminer/layout.py
index 6c33978..79e8f9d 100644
--- a/pdfminer/layout.py
+++ b/pdfminer/layout.py
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ class LTChar(LTItem, LTText):
 
     debug = 0
 
-    def __init__(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, cid):
+    def __init__(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid):
         self.matrix = matrix
         self.font = font
         self.fontsize = fontsize
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ class LTChar(LTItem, LTText):
             text = font.to_unichr(cid)
         except PDFUnicodeNotDefined:
             text = '?'
+        (a,b,c,d,e,f) = self.matrix
+        self.upright = (0 < a*d*scaling and b*c <= 0)
         LTText.__init__(self, text)
         # compute the boundary rectangle.
         if self.vertical:
@@ -224,7 +226,7 @@ class LTChar(LTItem, LTText):
             (dx,dy) = apply_matrix_norm(self.matrix, (size, self.adv))
             (_,_,_,_,tx,ty) = self.matrix
             tx -= dx/2
-            ty += displacement
+            ty += displacement + rise
             bbox = (tx, ty+dy, tx+dx, ty)
         else:
             # horizontal
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ class LTChar(LTItem, LTText):
             (_,descent) = apply_matrix_norm(self.matrix, (0, descent))
             (dx,dy) = apply_matrix_norm(self.matrix, (self.adv, size))
             (_,_,_,_,tx,ty) = self.matrix
-            ty += descent
+            ty += descent + rise
             bbox = (tx, ty, tx+dx, ty+dy)
         LTItem.__init__(self, bbox)
         return
@@ -253,8 +255,7 @@ class LTChar(LTItem, LTText):
         return self.vertical
 
     def is_upright(self):
-        (a,b,c,d,e,f) = self.matrix
-        return 0 < a*d and b*c <= 0
+        return self.upright
 
     
 ##  LTContainer
diff --git a/pdfminer/pdfdevice.py b/pdfminer/pdfdevice.py
index a0fd371..2e3c347 100644
--- a/pdfminer/pdfdevice.py
+++ b/pdfminer/pdfdevice.py
@@ -66,19 +66,22 @@ class PDFTextDevice(PDFDevice):
         scaling = textstate.scaling * .01
         charspace = textstate.charspace * scaling
         wordspace = textstate.wordspace * scaling
+        rise = textstate.rise
         if font.is_multibyte():
             wordspace = 0
         dxscale = .001 * fontsize * scaling
         if font.is_vertical():
             textstate.linematrix = self.render_string_vertical(
-                seq, matrix, textstate.linematrix, font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, dxscale)
+                seq, matrix, textstate.linematrix, font, fontsize,
+                scaling, charspace, wordspace, rise, dxscale)
         else:
             textstate.linematrix = self.render_string_horizontal(
-                seq, matrix, textstate.linematrix, font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, dxscale)
+                seq, matrix, textstate.linematrix, font, fontsize,
+                scaling, charspace, wordspace, rise, dxscale)
         return
     
     def render_string_horizontal(self, seq, matrix, (x,y), 
-                                 font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, dxscale):
+                                 font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, rise, dxscale):
         needcharspace = False
         for obj in seq:
             if isinstance(obj, int) or isinstance(obj, float):
@@ -89,14 +92,14 @@ class PDFTextDevice(PDFDevice):
                     if needcharspace:
                         x += charspace
                     x += self.render_char(translate_matrix(matrix, (x,y)),
-                                          font, fontsize, scaling, cid)
+                                          font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid)
                     if cid == 32 and wordspace:
                         x += wordspace
                     needcharspace = True
         return (x, y)
 
     def render_string_vertical(self, seq, matrix, (x,y), 
-                               font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, dxscale):
+                               font, fontsize, scaling, charspace, wordspace, rise, dxscale):
         needcharspace = False
         for obj in seq:
             if isinstance(obj, int) or isinstance(obj, float):
@@ -107,13 +110,13 @@ class PDFTextDevice(PDFDevice):
                     if needcharspace:
                         y += charspace
                     y += self.render_char(translate_matrix(matrix, (x,y)), 
-                                          font, fontsize, scaling, cid)
+                                          font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid)
                     if cid == 32 and wordspace:
                         y += wordspace
                     needcharspace = True
         return (x, y)
 
-    def render_char(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, cid):
+    def render_char(self, matrix, font, fontsize, scaling, rise, cid):
         return 0