## Presentation Device Driver Reference for OS/2

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### FOCAMETRICS Field - xAveCharWidth

xAveCharWidth (SHORT) Average character width.

This is determined by multiplying the width of each lowercase character by a constant, adding the products, and then dividing by 1000. The letters, plus their constants, are listed below:

Letter Constant
a 64
b 14
c 27
d 35
e 100
f 20
g 14
h 42
i 63
j 3
k 6
l 35
m 20
n 56
o 56
p 17
q 4
r 49
s 56
t 71
u 31
v 10
w 18
x 3
y 18
z 2
space 166

Note: For fixed pitch fonts, this value will be the same as the (A width + B width + C width) escapement of each character.