Re: [ft] Getting width of space

[Peter Weilbacher]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > 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.

Ah, of course. Why didn't you say so?
   Peter.