[XeTeX] height and depth of characters

Stephen Moye stephenmoye at mac.com
Sat Mar 26 12:59:02 CET 2005


>Having said that, sometimes it is nice to know how big characters are 
>so if the situation stays as it is I proposed once that an extra XeTeX 
>primitive could be added to measure the heights and depths of 
>characters on a one-off basis.

Now that you mention it I do remember a discussion of this limitation. 

I would certainly like to see a primitive to give height and depth of a given character.

Thank you.

Stephen Moye



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