Re: Variable characters

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From: Gisle Aas
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 08:28

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In article <293@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:

>                                               For essentially all Roman
>  fonts, "stringwidth" returns 0 for the Y component unless your coordinate
>  system is rotated or something.

Can anybody enlighten me on this subject. Why should stringwidth
return something else if your coordinate system is rotated or
something?
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From: aas@boeygen.nr.no (Gisle Aas)
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Subject: Re: Variable characters
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