William L. Hartzell wrote: > > 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?
You can query the average or maximum size of the characters in a font, but MathML needs to know the specific dimensions of each character/symbol to lay out a mathematical expression or formula properly. It would take something like a GpiQueryFontCharacter(font, pointsize, character) that returned a (or pointer to a) fontmetrics-like struct containing the values for the specified character. h~
