POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Width of character : Re: Width of character Server Time
5 Nov 2024 03:15:49 EST (-0500)
  Re: Width of character  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 19 Nov 2000 23:52:05
Message: <slrn91hbfp.bn5.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:20:35 +0100, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>I think that's only partly true, because the nominal width of the
>characters (used for positioning them) and the de facto with do not need
>to be the same.  I don't know which width is used for the bounding box

The difference is advance width and kerning.  Those are taken into account
in the macro Ingo made note of.

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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