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broadblues wrote:I can't see that there is any bug here, you *should* check your textextent before rendering text and make any adjustments required for negative values etc.

I see, so not a bug then.
I never knew you had to do this. I haven't found anything about it in the SDK.
I wonder then why some fonts feel the need to extend one tiny bit to the left.
But if you have to check this, I suppose that does not matter.

BTW, I have found that it's not just the 'W'.
The characters v, J and V are "guilty" too. There may be others.

@broadblues

I still think this is a bug.
The first letter of a normal text should not expand to the left (except if you're writing from right to left).

gazelle wrote:@broadblues

I still think this is a bug.
The first letter of a normal text should not expand to the left (except if you're writing from right to left).

Well, to be honest I feel like that too. Because I see no good reason for it.
And to have to check for the extent without a good reason, needlessly complicates things, IMHO.

If you specifically ask to render text at position X, and Intuition writes the text at position X-1, then it is a bug.