NEWTEXTMETRICW structure (wingdi.h)
The NEWTEXTMETRIC structure contains data that describes a physical font.
Syntax
typedef struct tagNEWTEXTMETRICW {
LONG tmHeight;
LONG tmAscent;
LONG tmDescent;
LONG tmInternalLeading;
LONG tmExternalLeading;
LONG tmAveCharWidth;
LONG tmMaxCharWidth;
LONG tmWeight;
LONG tmOverhang;
LONG tmDigitizedAspectX;
LONG tmDigitizedAspectY;
WCHAR tmFirstChar;
WCHAR tmLastChar;
WCHAR tmDefaultChar;
WCHAR tmBreakChar;
BYTE tmItalic;
BYTE tmUnderlined;
BYTE tmStruckOut;
BYTE tmPitchAndFamily;
BYTE tmCharSet;
DWORD ntmFlags;
UINT ntmSizeEM;
UINT ntmCellHeight;
UINT ntmAvgWidth;
} NEWTEXTMETRICW, *PNEWTEXTMETRICW, *NPNEWTEXTMETRICW, *LPNEWTEXTMETRICW;
Members
tmHeight
The height (ascent + descent) of characters.
tmAscent
The ascent (units above the base line) of characters.
tmDescent
The descent (units below the base line) of characters.
tmInternalLeading
The amount of leading (space) inside the bounds set by the tmHeight member. Accent marks and other diacritical characters may occur in this area. The designer may set this member to zero.
tmExternalLeading
The amount of extra leading (space) that the application adds between rows. Since this area is outside the font, it contains no marks and is not altered by text output calls in either OPAQUE or TRANSPARENT mode. The designer may set this member to zero.
tmAveCharWidth
The average width of characters in the font (generally defined as the width of the letter x). This value does not include overhang required for bold or italic characters.
tmMaxCharWidth
The width of the widest character in the font.
tmWeight
The weight of the font.
tmOverhang
The extra width per string that may be added to some synthesized fonts. When synthesizing some attributes, such as bold or italic, graphics device interface (GDI) or a device may have to add width to a string on both a per-character and per-string basis. For example, GDI makes a string bold by expanding the spacing of each character and overstriking by an offset value; it italicizes a font by shearing the string. In either case, there is an overhang past the basic string. For bold strings, the overhang is the distance by which the overstrike is offset. For italic strings, the overhang is the amount the top of the font is sheared past the bottom of the font.
The tmOverhang member enables the application to determine how much of the character width returned by a GetTextExtentPoint32 function call on a single character is the actual character width and how much is the per-string extra width. The actual width is the extent minus the overhang.
tmDigitizedAspectX
The horizontal aspect of the device for which the font was designed.
tmDigitizedAspectY
The vertical aspect of the device for which the font was designed. The ratio of the tmDigitizedAspectX and tmDigitizedAspectY members is the aspect ratio of the device for which the font was designed.
tmFirstChar
The value of the first character defined in the font.
tmLastChar
The value of the last character defined in the font.
tmDefaultChar
The value of the character to be substituted for characters that are not in the font.
tmBreakChar
The value of the character to be used to define word breaks for text justification.
tmItalic
An italic font if it is nonzero.
tmUnderlined
An underlined font if it is nonzero.
tmStruckOut
A strikeout font if it is nonzero.
tmPitchAndFamily
The pitch and family of the selected font. The low-order bit (bit 0) specifies the pitch of the font. If it is 1, the font is variable pitch (or proportional). If it is 0, the font is fixed pitch (or monospace). Bits 1 and 2 specify the font type. If both bits are 0, the font is a raster font; if bit 1 is 1 and bit 2 is 0, the font is a vector font; if bit 1 is 0 and bit 2 is set, or if both bits are 1, the font is some other type. Bit 3 is 1 if the font is a device font; otherwise, it is 0.
The four high-order bits designate the font family. The tmPitchAndFamily member can be combined with the hexadecimal value 0xF0 by using the bitwise AND operator and can then be compared with the font family names for an identical match. For more information about the font families, see LOGFONT.
tmCharSet
The character set of the font.
ntmFlags
Specifies whether the font is italic, underscored, outlined, bold, and so forth. May be any reasonable combination of the following values.
| Bit | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | NTM_ITALIC | italic |
| 5 | NTM_BOLD | bold |
| 8 | NTM_REGULAR | regular |
| 16 | NTM_NONNEGATIVE_AC | no glyph in a font at any size has a negative A or C space. |
| 17 | NTM_PS_OPENTYPE | PostScript OpenType font |
| 18 | NTM_TT_OPENTYPE | TrueType OpenType font |
| 19 | NTM_MULTIPLEMASTER | multiple master font |
| 20 | NTM_TYPE1 | Type 1 font |
| 21 | NTM_DSIG | font with a digital signature. This allows traceability and ensures that the font has been tested and is not corrupted |
ntmSizeEM
The size of the em square for the font. This value is in notional units (that is, the units for which the font was designed).
ntmCellHeight
The height, in notional units, of the font. This value should be compared with the value of the ntmSizeEM member.
ntmAvgWidth
The average width of characters in the font, in notional units. This value should be compared with the value of the ntmSizeEM member.
Remarks
The last four members of the NEWTEXTMETRIC structure are not included in the TEXTMETRIC structure; in all other respects, the structures are identical.
The sizes in the NEWTEXTMETRIC structure are typically specified in logical units; that is, they depend on the current mapping mode of the display context.
Note
The wingdi.h header defines NEWTEXTMETRIC as an alias which automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.
Requirements
| Requirement | Value |
|---|---|
| Minimum supported client | Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only] |
| Minimum supported server | Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only] |
| Header | wingdi.h (include Windows.h) |
See also
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