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Re: Undocumented function to determine em-width of font in points (or mm)

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On 2011-05-07 21:36:07 +1000, Luci Ellis said:

> Dear all
> I vaguely remember that there is an undocumented function for
> extracting the length of an em in the current font, and expressing it
> in printers points, but I can't remember what it was.
> 
> My problem is I need to create a graphics output that is a guaranteed
> absolute width in points (or mm). Each row in the grid needs to take
> its natural height, which GraphicsGrid or GraphicsColumn does not do
> (it creates equal-height rows). So I need to use Grid. But unlike
> GraphicsGrid, which uses points in the ImageSize option, Grid uses ems
> in the ItemSize option. I have a standard font so I should be able to
> map the font em to absolute units like points or mm, if only I can
> extract that em length in absolute units.
> 
> <snip>

Dear all,
While the answer would still be interesting for other reasons, I worked 
out the solution to my actual problem: a sequence of GraphicsGrid[]s 
inside a Column[].
I hope this is useful for future Googlers.
Regards
Luci

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Undocumented function to determine em-width of font in points (or mm) Luci Ellis <luci@verbeia.com> - 2011-05-07 11:36 +0000
  Re: Undocumented function to determine em-width of font in points (or mm) Luci Ellis <luci@verbeia.com> - 2011-05-08 11:35 +0000
  Re: Undocumented function to determine em-width of font in points (or mm) Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:20 +0000

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