NAME

       XmbTextEscapement, XwcTextEscapement, Xutf8TextEscapement - obtain the escapement of text

SYNTAX

       int XmbTextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst char *string, int num_bytes);

       int XwcTextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst wchar_t *string, int num_wchars);

       int Xutf8TextEscapement(XFontSet font_set, _Xconst char *string, int num_bytes);

ARGUMENTS

       font_set  Specifies the font set.

       num_bytes Specifies the number of bytes in the string argument.

       num_wchars
                 Specifies the number of characters in the string argument.

       string    Specifies the character string.

DESCRIPTION

       The  XmbTextEscapement,  XwcTextEscapement  and  Xutf8TextEscapement  functions  return the escapement in
       pixels of the specified string as a value, using the fonts  loaded  for  the  specified  font  set.   The
       escapement  is the distance in pixels in the primary draw direction from the drawing origin to the origin
       of the next character to be drawn, assuming that the rendering of the next character is not dependent  on
       the supplied string.

       Regardless of the character rendering order, the escapement is always positive.

       The  function Xutf8TextEscapement is an extension introduced by The XFree86 Project, Inc., in their 4.0.2
       release.  Its presence is indicated by the macro X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING.

SEE ALSO

       XmbTextExtents(3), XmbTextPerCharExtents(3) Xlib - C Language X Interface