Re: need help!

[crusius_at_stanford . edu]

hi there. i am writing an application that accepts user input and uses
freetype (if you really want to know, a terminal emulator). the
problem:

* the user specifies the font width in pixels. the font is always
  monospaced, so the value is used as the advance for all glyphs.
* i use FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes(font_face,font_width,0) to set the font
  size.
* the bitmaps are rendered in a square of font_width x font_width,
  so that there is a horrible big black margin for each character.

what happens, i think, is that the user 'font_width' is really being
respected only in 'font_height', since obviously the characters are
taller than wider.

the question becomes: how can i set the *font width* of a font??? i
want to do it in a way that i can use 'font_width' for the font
advance and get correct rendering. i don't want to use advances from
glyphs, and i don't want the character height to be taken into account
when setting the font size.

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