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mcjohnalds45
mcjohnalds45

Reputation: 707

How can I render monospace text in any font with FreeType 2?

Given any typical font, not necessarily a monospace one, how can I render text in a monospace style? I've tried messing around with drawing the bitmaps of the glyphs individually, but I can never get the x and y alignment between glyphs right. I'm using OpenGL and python, but the answer should be adaptable to any graphics context or language.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1323

Answers (1)

mcjohnalds45
mcjohnalds45

Reputation: 707

OK yep sorry I'm silly. I'm not even sure what I was doing wrong before. In case anyone equally as silly stumbles upon this, the simplest solution (in pseudocode) is just:

int charWidth = width of widest character in font;

void drawString(FT_Face face, string str, int xshift, int yshift) {
    x = 0;
    for (each character c in str) {
        FT_Load_Char(face, c, ...);
        draw the character at (xshift + x, yshift);
        x += charWidth;
    }
}

(It won't let me accept my own answer yet)

Upvotes: 1

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