Re: Finding Glyphs for String
Re: Finding Glyphs for String
- Subject: Re: Finding Glyphs for String
- From: Douglas Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:40:03 -0800
On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 04:23 PM, Charles Jolley wrote:
Would you (or anyone) happen to know if there is a way to do this
that does not require the full machinery of the LayoutManager? The
text I have to convert is quite small and it is for insertion into
another layout manager anyway, so using another layout manager seems
like a bit overkill.
If you insert the text into that other layout manager, then you could
interrogate that layout manager for the glyphs. Otherwise it is hard to
say without knowing what you are doing. In general, the conversion from
characters to glyphs is complex and not easily summarized.
Douglas Davidson