Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!mimsy!haven!udel!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!nuug!ulrik!ulrik!aas From: aas@boeygen.nr.no (Gisle Aas) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Variable characters Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 90 08:28:20 GMT References: <1902@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <21131@well.sf.ca.us> <122961@linus.mitre.org> <293@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (USENET News System) Organization: Norwegain Computing Centre, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us's message of 11 Oct 90 19:34:38 GMT In article <293@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: > For essentially all Roman > fonts, "stringwidth" returns 0 for the Y component unless your coordinate > system is rotated or something. Can anybody enlighten me on this subject. Why should stringwidth return something else if your coordinate system is rotated or something? -- Gisle Aas | snail: Boks 114 Blindern, N-0314 Oslo, Norway Norsk Regnesentral | X.400: G=Gisle;S=Aas;O=nr;P=uninett;C=no voice: +47-2-453561 | inet: Gisle.Aas@nr.no