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XwcTextEscapement()					   XwcTextEscapement()

Name
  XwcTextEscapement  – obtain the width of internationalized wide-charac‐
  ter text.

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

Arguments
  font_set  Specifies the font set.

  string    Specifies the character string.

  num_wchars
	    Specifies the number of characters in the string argument.

Returns
  The escapement in pixels.

Availability
  Release 5 and later.

Description
  XwcTextEscapement() returns the escapement in pixels of  the	specified
  wide-character  string  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.

  The  escapement is always positive, regardless of the character-render‐
  ing order.

See Also
  XwcTextExtents(), XwcTextPerCharExtents(), XmbTextEscapement().

Xlib - Internationalized Text				   XwcTextEscapement()

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