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width of strings/characters in a proportional font
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Oliver Scholz |
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width of strings/characters in a proportional font |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:08:29 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
How can I check how wide a string in a proportional font is?
I have read the following in the Emacs Lisp reference:
,----[ Display ==> Width ]
| Width
| =====
|
| Since not all characters have the same width, these functions let you
| check the width of a character. *Note Primitive Indent::, and *Note
| Screen Lines::, for related functions.
|
|[...]
|
| - Function: string-width string
| This function returns the width in columns of the string STRING,
| if it were displayed in the current buffer and the selected window.
`----
>From this I would have guessed that the following returns a fraction,
for example 3.5, meaning that the string has the width of 3.5 columns
in the default font:
(string-width (propertize "Test." 'face 'variable-pitch))
But it returns 5. So what am I missing here?
1. How is `string-width' supposed to be used? In what respects is it
different from `(length string)'?
2. How do I get information about the width of a string in a
proportional font (or in a different font size)? Suppose I want to
write a face-sensitive fill-function, or I want to write a function
that puts text inside a box and DTRT with proportional fonts.
-- Oliver
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