Re: [ft] Getting width of space

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The output I get when running the program on the Arial font of the
> MS web fonts package is this:
>
>    select ' '
>    gid(x)=3
>    loaded ' '
>    width(' ')=0/0.000000 (advance=192/0.750000)
>
> The width for spaces is always zero.

This is correct.  The space glyph is completely empty, thus the width
of the glyph is empty too.  Only glyphs which contain outlines have a
width.


    Werner