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* Getting the width of a character?
@ 2003-02-10  9:42 Felix E. Klee
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From: Felix E. Klee @ 2003-02-10  9:42 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

how do I get the width (in pixels or inches or ...) of a character in the 
current default font? I know there are char-width and frame-char-width. 
However, the former doesn't work with proportional fonts and the latter 
only returns the width in columns.

Felix

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