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[REBOL] Re: Proportional-spaced fonts with accent marks

From: carl:cybercraft at: 6-May-2002 19:30

Thanks Romano - that's nice. I didn't realise text faces were quite that dynamic as I'm used to having to set aside space for them in a layout to stop them being trimed when they're viewed. On 06-May-02, Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
> Hi Carl, >> My biggest worry with this approach is you'll be making an awful >> lot of faces, (one per word in your book), just to get their >> length. > You can always use the same faces: > layout [ > word1: text no-wrap font-size 16 > word2: text no-wrap font-size 18 > ] > for n 1 8 1 [ > word1/text: line1/:n > word2/text: line2/:n > word-w: max first size-text word1 first size-text word2 > append line-tabs 6 + word-w + last line-tabs > ]
-- Carl Read