Henry Sobotka wrote:
> Christoph Vogelbusch wrote:
> 
>>I just tried MathML and wonder if there is any progress getting it work
>>under OS/2?
> 
> 
> The obstacle to implementing it is that MathML needs to know the
> dimensions of each character it uses, and the OS/2 font API provides no
> such facility. It would have to be implemented using something like
> Freetype/2 that can deliver those details.
> 
> OTOH, it has always worked in the XFree86/OS2 builds of Mozilla.


I always wonder about this.  What is needed that GpiQueryFontMetrics 
does not provide?  It is true that you must get the information in the 
context of a presentation device and the desired point size.  The system 
then should return the fontmetrics structure with the information, no?
-- 
Bill
<American Independence's Day is the Fourth of July>


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