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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Character side bearings
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Date: 16 Jul 90 14:38:31 GMT
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Greetings fellow PSers,

   How does one determine the left side bearing of a character (in a
particular font)?  I am looking at section 5.5, "Font Metric Information",
of the Red Book, (pp 95-96), which says:  "The sequence

   charpath flattenpath pathbbox

may be used to determine character bounding boxes and side bearings."

   Well, I can see how it gives you the bounding box, but how do you
get the (left) side bearing?

Thanks,
John Hascall  /  hascall@atansoff.cs.iastate.edu

For those wondering what the devil I'm trying to do:  I am trying to position
a character so that the characters actual left edge is at a certain location.