Robert Covington wrote:

> I have a text renderer I am working on for my program. For memory reasons I
> will have to render the text line by line from the entry edit field.
>
> So for example, if the entry text is:
>
> This is Line 1
> This is Line 2
>
> I am going to have to print it to the target GWorld a line at a time using
> Drawstring, after scaling, anti-aliasing, etc.
>
> How does one know how far to space each line when printing something?
>
> Looking for the distance between lines of text, by font. Is this a
> GetFontInfo parameter?
>
> This is Line 1
> < -> this space in between the lines
> This is Line 2
>
> When I do a carriage return for instance, how far down does the pen move to
> render/print the next line, and is this a font specific item? If so, how
> does one gain this value, and what is it called?
>
>

Are you looking for USR Fontheight ?

Try

Dim x as short
window #1
Text 3,9,0,0
x = USR Fontheight
Print x
print
Text 3,12,0,0
x = USR Fontheight
Print x

do 
until Fn button

Regards

Ian