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.TH XTextWidth __libmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ "XLIB FUNCTIONS"

.SH NAME

XTextWidth, XTextWidth16 \- compute text width

.SH SYNTAX

.HP

int XTextWidth\^(\^XFontStruct *\fIfont_struct\fP\^, char *\fIstring\fP\^,

int \fIcount\fP\^); 

.HP

int XTextWidth16\^(\^XFontStruct *\fIfont_struct\fP\^, XChar2b

*\fIstring\fP\^, int \fIcount\fP\^); 

.SH ARGUMENTS

.IP \fIcount\fP 1i

Specifies the character count in the specified string.

.IP \fIfont_struct\fP 1i

Specifies the font used for the width computation.

.IP \fIstring\fP 1i

Specifies the character string.

.SH DESCRIPTION

The

.ZN XTextWidth

and

.ZN XTextWidth16

functions return the width of the specified 8-bit or 2-byte character strings.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

XLoadFont(__libmansuffix__),

XTextExtents(__libmansuffix__)

.br

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