XmbTextEscapement(3) XLIB FUNCTIONS XmbTextEscapement(3)
NAME
XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement, Xutf8TextEscapement - obtain the
escapement of text
SYNTAX
int XmbTextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst char *string, int
num_bytes);
int XwcTextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst wchar_t *string, int
num_wchars);
int Xutf8TextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst char *string, int
num_bytes);
ARGUMENTS
font_set Specifies the font set.
num_bytes Specifies the number of bytes in the string argument.
num_wchars
Specifies the number of characters in the string argument.
string Specifies the character string.
DESCRIPTION
The XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement and Xutf8TextEscapement func-
tions return the escapement in pixels of the specified string as a
value, using the fonts loaded for the specified font set. The escape-
ment is the distance in pixels in the primary draw direction from the
drawing origin to the origin of the next character to be drawn, assuming
that the rendering of the next character is not dependent on the sup-
plied string.
Regardless of the character rendering order, the escapement is always
positive.
The function Xutf8TextEscapement is an extension introduced by The
XFree86 Project, Inc., in their 4.0.2 release. Its presence is indi-
cated by the macro X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING.
SEE ALSO
XmbTextExtents(3), XmbTextPerCharExtents(3) Xlib - C Language X Inter-
face
X Version 11 libX11 1.8.12 XmbTextEscapement(3)
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