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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Determining font size values:  R2 vs. R3
Message-ID: <100920171@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 17:34:12 GMT
References: <3630008@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I believe that you should be using XTextExtents rather than character
box stuff.

Get a copy of the Xhp widget source and root around in the StaticText
widget.  There's a block of code to do exactly what you want. 

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