emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) (06/27/91)
I have a form that uses a bold font and another that uses a medium font. I need to find out the Width and Height of a "typical" character (in PIXELS) in the font for each form. I specified the font for each form in my XAPPLRESDIR resource file. I think there should be a way in the Intrinsics to find out the xteristics of a font without resorting to Xlib! Any ideas? Pls E-mail. Thanx --Emuleomo O.O. (emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu) -- Remember! It doesn't matter if you win or lose, as long as you win!
mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) (06/28/91)
In article <Jun.27.08.32.21.1991.16139@paul.rutgers.edu>, emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes: > I need to find out the Width and Height of a "typical" character (in > PIXELS) in the font for each form. First, define what you mean by `a "typical" character'! More seriously, I think you're probably trying to solve the wrong problem here. Regardless of the width of a typical character (whatever that means), someday you'll have to display something unusually wide or unusually narrow, so you have to be prepared for both extremes anyway. (And note that `unusually narrow' can be rather extreme; consider a font that contains both Arabic and Latin characters, for example.) That said, if you still believe you want such a thing, try to define precisely what it is you want, and then perhaps a solution will be easier to find. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu