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			</script><div class="MainContent"><br><p>The FTE provides low-level support for sophisticated control of text metrics, formatting, and bi-directional text. While it can be used to create and manage simple text elements, the FTE is primarily designed as a foundation for developers to create text-handling components.</p><br><hr><a name="classSummary"></a><div class="summaryTableTitle">Classes</div><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="summaryTable"><tr><th>&nbsp;</th><th width="30%">Class</th><th width="70%">Description</th></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="BreakOpportunity.html">BreakOpportunity</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The BreakOpportunity class is an enumeration of constant values that you can use to set the breakOpportunity property 
of the ElementFormat class.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="CFFHinting.html">CFFHinting</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The CFFHinting class defines values for cff hinting in the FontDescription class.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="ContentElement.html">ContentElement</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The ContentElement class serves as a base class for the element types that can appear in a GroupElement, namely a GraphicElement, 
 another GroupElement, or a TextElement.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="DigitCase.html">DigitCase</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The DigitCase class is an enumeration of constant values used in setting the digitCase property 
of the ElementFormat class.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="DigitWidth.html">DigitWidth</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The DigitWidth class is an enumeration of constant values used in setting the digitWidth property 
of the ElementFormat class.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="EastAsianJustifier.html">EastAsianJustifier</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The EastAsianJustifier class has properties to control the justification options for text lines whose 
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of the TabStop class.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="TabStop.html">TabStop</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The TabStop class represents the properties of a tab stop in a text block.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="TextBaseline.html">TextBaseline</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The TextBaseline class is an enumeration of constant values to use in setting the dominantBaseline and
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of the TextLine class.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="TextRotation.html">TextRotation</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The TextRotation class is an enumeration of constant values used with the following properties:
ElementFormat.textRotation, ContentElement.textRotation,
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