[XeTeX] bounding box of a character

[Wenchang Sun]

Thanks! 
   
  The "ink box" could be the one I am looking for. I want to trim off the spaces around a punctuation char.
   
  Best,
  Wenchang

Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> 写道：
  On 03/06/2008, at 10:47 AM, Wenchang Sun wrote:

> Is there a macro to get the bounding box of a char?
> I think it could be easy for XeTeX to do that because XeTeX know the 
> font metric.

You can get the bounding box but not the "ink box". In LaTeX terms, 
it's something like:

\newlength\lengtha
\newlength\lengthb
\newlength\lengthc
\settowidth\lengtha{a}
\settoheight\lengthb{a}
\settodepth\lengthc{a}

The calc package also provides the \lengthof{} (etc.) macros when 
calculating lengths.

Hope this helps,
Will

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