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From: marsh@linus.mitre.org (Ralph Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Variable characters
Keywords: font, character size
Message-ID: <123112@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 12 Oct 90 14:46:48 GMT
References: <1902@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <21131@well.sf.ca.us> <122961@linus.mitre.org> <293@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Reply-To: marsh@darwin.UUCP (Ralph Marshall 617 271-8784)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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In an earlier incarnation, I misspoke myself as follows:
>>Of course, you can also get the height of the string from stringwidth
>>(despite the somewhat misleading name).  It leaves both the width and
>>height of the string on the stack, taking into account ....
>

To which Glenn pointed out that PostScript should only be used by
professionals who know what they are doing, and not by those of us
watching out in net-land who were bound to burn, shock, or lacerate
ourselves due to the lack of proper training:

>No.  The "stringwidth" operator returns the amount by which the current
>point will be displaced.  It has nothing to do with the toner marks
>made on the page and how big they might be.  For essentially all Roman
>fonts, "stringwidth" returns 0 for the Y component unless your coordinate
>system is rotated or something.
>
>/Glenn

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