[Tcl-bugs] [ tktoolkit-Bugs-1171961 ] "font measure" parsed incorrectly

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Bugs item #1171961, was opened at 2005-03-28 19:02
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Category: 44. Generic Fonts
Group: current: 8.4.9
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Csaba Nemethi (nemethi)
Assigned to: Jeffrey Hobbs (hobbs)
Summary: "font measure" parsed incorrectly

Initial Comment:
The command

    font measure "Courier -12" "-display"

should return the width of the string "-display" in
pixels. Instead, it raises an error, because the string
"-display" is interpreted as the abbreviation of the
optional "-displayof" switch.  This is a very
long-standing bug in parsing the "font measure"
command, whose syntax is

    font measure font ?-displayof window? text

If the "font" argument is followed by a single string
then the correct behavior should be to interpret that
string as the "text" argument, regardless of what
string was passed to the command.

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