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| From | Luci Ellis <luci@verbeia.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica |
| Subject | Re: Undocumented function to determine em-width of font in points (or mm) |
| Date | Sun, 8 May 2011 11:35:16 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization | Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc. |
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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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