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Enlightenment, please!

I have a procedure which charpath's characters, passes the character width
to a function which clips and then does a special fill into a rect whose
width is the passed-in width [the vertical part works].
It works fine except for the letter "f" in Times-Roman, the
top right part of the f does not get filled. It must overhang its bounding
box, a poor computer scientist's ligature device? Or is the stringwidth of
a character different from the bbox?
	
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Is this the only character that does this? Can I access
the sidebearing data? Platform is the NeXT, so NXFontMetric replies 
preferred, but plain PostScript also welcome.

Thanks,
andrew 
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