[texhax] Character bounding boxes

[Ranjith Unnikrishnan]

Sorry, I should have worded my question more carefully...My intention is
*not* to get one bounding box for all the characters together, but to get
the bounding box coordinates of *each* character in the input text. So if
the text I want to render is "$y = x^2$", I'd like to be able to obtain the
bbox coordinates of "y", "=", "x" and "2".
Suggestions? Thanks!
~R

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:39 AM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>wrote:

> On Sep 23, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Ranjith Unnikrishnan wrote:
>
>  In short, do you know of a way to extract the bounding box coordinates of
>> the characters in the output dvi or via some other way that utilizes latex?
>>
>
>
> We just had this discussion.
>
> See the recent thread ``compile to a small PDF''.
>
> Short answer, put the characters in a box and measure the box.
>
> Long answer, look at the code for the preview.sty package.
>
> William
>
> --
> William Adams
> senior graphic designer
> Fry Communications
>
>
>
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