more thorough read_pid with extra delay, to give external process a chance to write pid file before attempting to terminate it -- especially relevant for PIDE document processing, where interrupts can happen in the range of milliseconds;
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Title: GraphBrowser/AWTFontMetrics.java
Author: Gerwin Klein, TU Muenchen
AbstractFontMetrics avoids dependency on java.awt.FontMetrics in
batch mode.
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package GraphBrowser;
public interface AbstractFontMetrics {
public int stringWidth(String str);
public int getAscent();
public int getDescent();
}