[XeTeX] XeTeXuseglyphmetrics

[SUN Wenchang]

> That would be only useful if the bbox of the chars in the font has
> the correct values (and then you wouldn't have a problem as the
> width is already used) but as you said they don't have them. 
> 
> \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics doesn't trim spaces, it doesn't change a bbox.
> The bbox of each char is already in the font and with
> \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics you can choose to use is or to ignore it and
> use a generic value instead. Not more. 
> 


At present, \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics  does trim (unvisible) spaces above a glyph, that is, it changes the height.

 

And we need a primitive to trim  horizental spaces.

 

Best,

Wenchang

> 
> 
> -- 
> Ulrike Fischer 
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