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Selling GNU/Linux in a box

09-05-2008 01:00 PM
Eight years ago, computer stores stocked a choice of GNU/Linux distributions -- established ones like Caldera, Red Hat, and SUSE, and newcomers like Corel, Progeny, and Stormix. Now, only Ubuntu and openSUSE offer box sets, and both face challenges that other distributions found unsolvable, ranging from reasonable prices and features sets through to getting into distribution channels and finding the right marketing approach -- all for an effort that may be only moderately profitable at best, and perhaps best undertaken for non-financial reasons.



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mdraw_text_extents(3m17n)					 The m17n Library					 mdraw_text_extents(3m17n)

NAME
mdraw_text_extents - Compute text pixel width. SYNOPSIS
int mdraw_text_extents (MFrame * frame, MText * mt, int from, int to, MDrawControl * control, MDrawMetric * overall_ink_return, MDrawMetric * overall_logical_return, MDrawMetric * overall_line_return) DESCRIPTION
Compute text pixel width. The mdraw_text_extents() function computes the width of text between from and to of M-text mt when it is drawn on a window of frame frame using the mdraw_text_with_control() function with the drawing control object control. If overall_ink_return is not NULL, this function also computes the bounding box of character ink of the M-text, and stores the results in the members of the structure pointed to by overall_ink_return. If the M-text has a face specifying a surrounding box, the box is included in the bounding box. If overall_logical_return is not NULL, this function also computes the bounding box that provides minimum spacing to other graphical features (such as surrounding box) for the M-text, and stores the results in the members of the structure pointed to by overall_logical_return. If overall_line_return is not NULL, this function also computes the bounding box that provides minimum spacing to the other M-text drawn, and stores the results in the members of the structure pointed to by overall_line_return. This is a union of overall_ink_return and overall_logical_return if the members min_line_ascent, min_line_descent, max_line_ascent, and max_line_descent of control are all zero. RETURN VALUE
This function returns the width of the text to be drawn in the unit of pixels. If control->two_dimensional is nonzero and the text is drawn in multiple physical lines, it returns the width of the widest line. If an error occurs, it returns -1 and assigns an error code to the external variable merror_code. ERRORS
MERROR_RANGE COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>. Version 1.6.2 12 Jan 2011 mdraw_text_extents(3m17n)