Re: Slight text lowering

>  Instead, if I
comment out the line including the font statement, the text slightly lowers
down a bit.

actually it is slightly raised, but not enough to touch the top of the
paper.

plain tex sets \topskip (the target position for the first baseline) to
10pt, with the 16pt font it can't achieve that  so the baseline is pushed
down.

with the 10pt font none of the characters used are actually 10pt high so
the baseline is in the intended place and a small gap is still above the H

David