Re: Determining font size values: R2 vs. R3

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From: Benjamin Ellsworth
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 17:34

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I believe that you should be using XTextExtents rather than character
box stuff.

Get a copy of the Xhp widget source and root around in the StaticText
widget.  There's a block of code to do exactly what you want. 

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