[REBOL] Re: Justifying text
From: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 15-Dec-2002 14:42
Volker Nitsch wrote:
> Carl Read wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Consider a line of 10 characters that's five pixels short of the width
>> you want the line to be. If you set font/space to 1x0, that'd add
>> nine pixels to the width of the line, (1 between each character),
>> which would make it too wide.
>>
>> What you need to do is add 1 pixel between the first six characters
>> and leave the following four spaces at 0x0 - hence the need for two
>> faces. And using two faces means you need padding between them as
>> well.
>>
>> Does that make sense? (:
>>
>> There's a lot of other ways you could do this I guess, such as a face
>> per word and using the padding between them to get the width right,
>> but that'd mean much more than two faces per line in most cases.
>>
> editors shift text with face/para/scroll afaik. /para shared between
> faces, remember to clone it
Sorry, gave wrong answer, you split text. lazy as usual, i read "move
text" and thought it was usefull.
now tried example, nice :)
