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Exercise 10: Playing with Text

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   Font font = new Font( "Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 12 );

   Graphics g;
   g.setFont( font );

   FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics( font );

   int charWidth = fm.charWidth('W');
   int charHeight = fm.getHeight();

   String s = "whatever";
   int stringWidth = fm.stringWidth( s );