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XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement, Xutf8TextEscapement - obtain the escapement of text SYNTAX int XmbTextEscapement(XFontSet fontset, char *string, int numbytes); int XwcTextEscapement(XFontSet fontset, wchart *string, int numwchars); int Xutf8TextEscapement(XFontSet fontset, char *string, int numbytes); ARGUMENTS fontset Specifies the font set. numbytes Specifies the number of bytes in the string argument. numwchars 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, assum‐ ing that the rendering of the next character is not dependent on the supplied 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 indicated by the macro XHAVEUTF8STRING. SEE ALSO
XmbTextExtents(3), XmbTextPerCharExtents(3) Xlib - C Language X Inter‐ face X Version 11 libX11 1.6.5 XmbTextEscapement(3)