How do I measure character width?

[Richard Gaskin]

Victor Eijkhout wrote:

> I want to put some characters in a field, equally spaced horizontally
> and vertically. Meaning, my lines are "A  B  C  D" etc, and want the
> vertical distance between lines the same as the horizontal distance
> between A and B. I'm using a monospaced font.
> 
> I've found the textHeight parameter. Now how do I measure the width
> of a string such as "A  " so that I can set the text height to that?

See the formattedWidth property.

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