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XDrawText(3X11)			     X11R5		       XDrawText(3X11)

NAME
       XDrawText, XDrawText16, XTextItem, XTextItem16 - draw polytext text and
       text drawing structures

SYNTAX
       XDrawText(display, d, gc, x, y, items, nitems)
	     Display *display;
	     Drawable d;
	     GC gc;
	     int x, y;
	     XTextItem *items;
	     int nitems;

       XDrawText16(display, d, gc, x, y, items, nitems)
	     Display *display;
	     Drawable d;
	     GC gc;
	     int x, y;
	     XTextItem16 *items;
	     int nitems;

ARGUMENTS
       d	 Specifies the drawable.

       display	 Specifies the connection to the X server.

       gc	 Specifies the GC.

       items	 Specifies an array of text items.

       nitems	 Specifies the number of text items in the array.

       x
       y	 Specify the x and y coordinates, which are relative to the
		 origin of the specified drawable and define the origin of the
		 first character.

DESCRIPTION
       The function is similar to except that it uses 2-byte or 16-bit charac‐
       ters.  Both functions allow complex spacing and font shifts between
       counted strings.

       Each text item is processed in turn.  A font member other than in an
       item causes the font to be stored in the GC and used for subsequent
       text.  A text element delta specifies an additional change in the posi‐
       tion along the x axis before the string is drawn.  The delta is always
       added to the character origin and is not dependent on any characteris‐
       tics of the font.  Each character image, as defined by the font in the
       GC, is treated as an additional mask for a fill operation on the draw‐
       able.  The drawable is modified only where the font character has a bit
       set to 1.  If a text item generates a error, the previous text items
       may have been drawn.

       For fonts defined with linear indexing rather than 2-byte matrix index‐
       ing, each structure is interpreted as a 16-bit number with byte1 as the
       most-significant byte.

       Both functions use these GC components: function, plane-mask, fill-
       style, font, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-
       mask.  They also use these GC mode-dependent components: foreground,
       background, tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin, and tile-stipple-y-
       origin.

       and can generate and errors.

STRUCTURES
       The and structures contain:

       typedef struct {
	       char *chars;    /* pointer to string */
	       int nchars;     /* number of characters */
	       int delta;      /* delta between strings */
	       Font font;      /* Font to print it in, None don't change */
       } XTextItem;

       typedef struct {
	       XChar2b *chars; /* pointer to two-byte characters */
	       int nchars;     /* number of characters */
	       int delta;      /* delta between strings */
	       Font font;      /* font to print it in, None don't change */
       } XTextItem16;

       If the font member is not the font is changed before printing and also
       is stored in the GC.  If an error was generated during text drawing,
       the previous items may have been drawn.	The baseline of the characters
       are drawn starting at the x and y coordinates that you pass in the text
       drawing functions.

       For example, consider the background rectangle drawn by If you want the
       upper-left corner of the background rectangle to be at pixel coordinate
       (x,y), pass the (x,y + ascent) as the baseline origin coordinates to
       the text functions.  The ascent is the font ascent, as given in the
       structure.  If you want the lower-left corner of the background rectan‐
       gle to be at pixel coordinate (x,y), pass the (x,y - descent + 1) as
       the baseline origin coordinates to the text functions.  The descent is
       the font descent, as given in the structure.

DIAGNOSTICS
       A value for a Drawable argument does not name a defined Window or
       Pixmap.

       A value for a Font or GContext argument does not name a defined Font.

       A value for a GContext argument does not name a defined GContext.

       An	 window is used as a Drawable.

SEE ALSO
       XDrawImageString(3X11), XDrawString(3X11), XLoadFont(3X11)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface

							       XDrawText(3X11)
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