.\" Generated by the Allegro makedoc utility
.TH get_font_ranges 3alleg4 "version 4.4.3" "Allegro" "Allegro manual"
.SH NAME
get_font_ranges \- Returns the number of character ranges in a font. Allegro game programming library.\&
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <allegro.h>

.sp
.B int get_font_ranges(FONT *f)
.SH DESCRIPTION
Use this function to find out the number of character ranges in a font. You
should query each of these ranges with get_font_range_begin() and
get_font_range_end() to find out what characters are available in the
font. Example:

.nf
   FONT *f;
   int range;
   int n;
   ...
   
   range = get_font_ranges(f);
   printf("The font has %d character ranges:\\n", range);
   for (n = 0; n < range; n++)
      printf("Range %d from 0x%03x - 0x%03x\\n",
             get_font_range_begin(f, n),
             get_font_range_end(f, n));
.fi
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
Returns the number of continuous character ranges in a font, or -1 if that
information is not available.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR get_font_range_begin (3alleg4),
.BR get_font_range_end (3alleg4),
.BR transpose_font (3alleg4)