Re: Font metrics in AFPDS?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Kern" may be the word you are looking for?

On 3/18/2015 6:31 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> James
>
> I'm looking at a print manual, I think -
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/books/c415713531.htm
>
> There is a font width listed for several of the FNTCHRSET names - in
> various places - and that width is how many 1/1440ths wide a blank is -
> which MIGHT be kind of an average.
>
> I thought there as something in the font resources that defined each
> characters width - has to be so that the successive characters are
> spaced properly.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 3/18/2015 5:42 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> > Fellow Midrange Geeks:
> >
> > My first (and so far, only) project involving both an
> > externally-described print file and AFPDS keywords is going rather
> > well, but it could be a lot better if I could determine the set-width
> > of a character string, in the font in which it is presented.
> >
> > There are numerous fields that have too little space on the page to
> > accommodate the full field length, in which I'm applying variable
> > horizontal scaling, based on the RPG %LEN(%TRIM()) of the field.
> > They'd work a lot better if I could calculate the horizontal scaling
> > from the actual set-width.
> >
> > One of those fields, in addition, is one where it would be nice if,
> > for values that take up less than the available space even without
> > horizontal scaling, I could accurately center the value (which of
> > course can't be done without knowing the set-width.
> >
> > Surely I'm not the first one in this position?
> >
> > --
> > JHHL