Re: Pixel-based display functions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I need to measure the lines after filling so that I know how wide the
>> column ended up being.  (This is to better use the available horizontal
>> space when rendering tables, which is quite important.)
>
> But then that's an optimization, isn't it?  IOW, you can do without
> it.

Well, web pages look kinda ugly if you don't do this.  

>> I think the ideal interface for this would be a function that returns
>> a vector of glyph widths in the region, possibly with one vector per
>> line.
>
> I'll see what I can do.

Great!

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