text_dimensions(3)

🎀 text_dimensions(3) — your Arcan Lua API bestie 🎀

okay so bestie, this is text_dimensions(3) from the Arcan Lua API, and it's here to spill the tea on sizing. No cap, it's a short one. 💅✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

text_dimensions — calculate the output volume of a format string. 📐💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

width, height
text_dimensions( message, vspacing, tspacing )

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

text_dimensions follows a lot of the same rules and restrictions as render_text — like, same family energy — with one notable exception: it does not produce any output. It's giving "measure only, no output," and honestly? iconic. 🫶

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🫧 NOTES 🫧

1. Even though it doesn't output anything, the global text-rendering state can still be affected — e.g. the currently loaded font and style are still in the mix. 👀✨

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• render_text(3) — go read that one too, bestie 💖

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no output does not mean no vibes, okay? it's literally just measuring 💅

💖 xoxo, that's the whole page — from the image build, October 2026, with love from the Arcan Lua API crew 💅🌈