How to go around measuring text synchronously?

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@hossameldeen

As a package user (not author), how would you go around this issue? Do you have any solution in mind?

For computing the text width, there is this package from @folkertdev:

@folkertdev

Over the past weeks I’ve been writing a opentype parser. I have reached my two main technical goals:

• Get bounding boxes (width and height) of all the characters in a string.
• “draw” text using svg: extract the shape of all characters in a string and drawing them in the correct location