PS_symbol_width(3)

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✨ PS_symbol_width(3) ✨

okay bestie, so this one is PS_symbol_width, and it lives in the Library Functions Manual — section 3, the "yes these are library functions" section 💅. Her whole entire job? Telling you how wide a glyph is. That's it. That's the girl. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

PS_symbol_width — get the width of a glyph 🦋

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <pslib.h>

float PS_symbol_width(PSDoc *psdoc, unsigned char c, int fontid, float size)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically, this function goes and retrieves the width of a glyph — and that glyph is sitting at position c in the font encoding vector. 👑

Now, the font encoding for a font? You can set that when you're loading the font with PS_findfont(). iykyk. ✨

And here's the cute part: fontid and size are optional, bestie. You can literally just set them to zero 🫶 and in such a case the current font and current size will be used. no cap. lowkey iconic behaviour honestly.

⭐ RETURN VALUE ⭐

The width of the symbol in points. that's the whole vibe. 📏✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, they're a whole friend group 💜

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. 💌 giving main character energy fr fr.

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 — this was PS_symbol_width(3) from the Library Functions Manual, and yeah, the footer is literally just her name again: PS_symbol_width(3). slay. 💅🌸✨

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