NAME¶

fcft_kerning - calculate kerning distance between two wide characters

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <fcft/fcft.h>

bool fcft_kerning(

DESCRIPTION¶

fcft_kerning() calculates the kerning distances x (horizontal) and y (vertical) between the two wide characters left and right, in pixels.

Both characters must exist in the primary font.

fcft_kerning() is just a convenience function around FT_Get_Kerning() and as such, it only supports legacy kern tables. In particular, OpenType fonts' GPOS tables are not supported. fcft is not a text shaping library.

RETURN VALUE¶

On success, fcft_kerning() returns true, and x and y are updated with the kerning distance, in pixels.

On error, false is returned. This may happen for several reasons:

• The primary font does not have any kerning information.
• One, or both, of the two characters have no corresponding glyph in the primary font.
• There is no kerning information for this character combination.

EXAMPLE¶

See fcft_from_name()