FMGETFONTINFO(3W)					     FMGETFONTINFO(3W)

NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     fmgetfontinfo - return information	about the overall font

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <fmclient.h>

     long fmgetfontinfo(fh, info)
     fmfonthandle fh;
     fmfontinfo	*info;

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     fmgetfontinfo writes information to the members of	the fmfontinfo type
     structure pointed to by the info parameter.  The information written
     pertains to the whole fh font. If fmgetfontinfo cannot find the fh	font,
     its returned function value is -1.	 Otherwise the value of	the function
     is	0.

     The members of fmfontinfo are declared to make it easy for	FORTRAN
     programmers to access and interpret (hence	the large number of long
     declarations).  For a listing of the entire fmfontinfo type structure,
     see <fmclient.h>. The members most	likely to be of	interest are:

     printermatched : tells whether there is a printer widths file
     corresponding to this font.

     matrix00-matrix11 : floats	that provide information in points.

     fixed_width : tells whether all the characters in the font	are the	same
     width.

     xorig, yorig : the	aggregate x-origin and y-origin	of the font.  yorig is
     the positive distance between the baseline	and the	lowest descender.
     xorig is the distance (positive or	negative) from the current point to
     the start of imaging of the glyph.

     xsize, ysize : the	maximum	sizes of the characters	in the font, in
     pixels.

     height : often the	same as	ysize, but some	fonts lie to get more leading.

     nglyphs : the index of the	highest-numbered character.  It	is not the
     total number of characters, but when allocating space for
     fmgetwholemetrics,	use nglyphs as though it were the total	number of
     characters.  In other words, this is the highest index of a possibly
     sparse matrix.

     The other members of the fmfontinfo type structure	are self-explanatory.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     fminit(3W), fmfindfont(3W), fmscalefont(3W)





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FMGETFONTINFO(3W)					     FMGETFONTINFO(3W)

NOTE    [Toc]    [Back]

     This routine is available only in immediate mode.


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