[Qt-interest] Qt does not provide a way to get a font's "em" size?

[Dan White]

How about using xHeight ?

<http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/qfontmetrics.html#xHeight>

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----- Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> I need to get the "em" size of fonts.  This is a design property of 
> scalable fonts.  QFontInfo and QFontMetrics don't seem to offer this 
> information and I would have to use FreeType directly to query it 
> (QFont::freetypeFace()).  That's not a good solution here since the 
> application needs to stay cross platform and still be able to get the em 
> size.
> 
> Is there any portable solution within Qt to get to that information?
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