Pango::FontMetrics(3)

💖 Pango::FontMetrics(3) — the glow-up your font metrics deserved ✨

okay so bestie, gather round — this is the manual page for Pango::FontMetrics, living under the Pango manual. It's literally just a wrapper for PangoFontMetrics, and honestly? It's giving quiet luxury. No cap. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Pango::FontMetrics — wrapper for PangoFontMetrics 🫶

🦋 HIERARCHY 🦋

so here's the family tree, and it's a whole mood:

Glib::Boxed
+----Pango::FontMetrics

like yes, it's a Glib::Boxed child and it knows it. main character energy fr. 👑

✨ METHODS ✨

okay this is the part you actually came for, so let's go method by method, no skipping, we're covering all of them 💅

• integer = $metrics->get_approximate_char_width — grabs you the approximate character width, as an integer. approximation nation, but make it precise. 📏
• integer = $metrics->get_approximate_digit_width — same deal but for digits specifically — approximate digit width, returned as an integer. numbers stay winning. 🔢
• integer = $metrics->get_ascent — the ascent, as an integer. get you a font that rises. 🌤️
• integer = $metrics->get_descent — the descent, as an integer. what goes up must come down, iconic behaviour honestly. 🌊
• integer = $metrics->get_strikethrough_position — where the strikethrough sits, as an integer. ~~very demure~~ very precise.

Since: pango 1.6 ⭐

• integer = $metrics->get_strikethrough_thickness — how thick that strikethrough is, as an integer. chunky. bold. no notes. 🔥

Since: pango 1.6 ⭐

• integer = $metrics->get_underline_position — underline position, as an integer. underrated, literally. 🫶

Since: pango 1.6 ⭐

• integer = $metrics->get_underline_thickness — underline thickness, as an integer. go off, underline. 🌈

Since: pango 1.6 ⭐

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go check out Pango and Glib::Boxed — they're right there in the group chat, say hi. 💬

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Pango for a full notice. (yes, actual legal iconery — do read the notice, bestie 🧚)

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and that's the whole page, periodt. 💜

this little tour was brought to you by perl v5.42.0, dated 2019-09-16 — vintage, but make it slay. 🍓🌷