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On 3/18/15 7:31 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
If I understand this right, you're trying to make proportional fonts "line
up" like non-proportional (or fixed font, like courrier) fonts.

Not at all. I'm trying to measure the set-width of a character string in a given font, one that's long enough that it can overflow the alotted space, so that if it exceeds that space, a horizontal scaling can be applied to it, based on the actual set-width, which is far more accurate than a horizontal scaling based on the character count.

Likewise, if I want to accurately center type in a space, I need the actual set-width of the string, in the given font, in order to know what to add to the starting position.

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JHHL


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