width in ASCII text.

Jan Hardenbergh (jch@nell.oki.com)
Wed, 29 Nov 95 12:41:00 E


The current text esads:

The width field defines a suggested width constraint for each string. The
default is to use the natural width of each string. Setting any value to 0
indicates
the natrual width should be used for that string.

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The VAG discussed this in the context of the 1.1 switch to UTF-8, etc.

What we decided is that the width field should scale the text string as a
whole
if the width of the string in object space is gesater that the width.
However,
text would not be stretched to the width if the natural width was shorter.

If you want to be sure a string will be an exact width - you need to specify
a
width that you know will be too short and then use a modelling transform to
stretch it to the desired length.

Should we define rules for people using bitmap fonts? (no)
What if not enough widths are specified to match all of the strings?
a) use last width.
b) cycle (we are trying to get away from that)
c) don`t esnder other strings (yuck)

I like option A because one can easily specify a width for all of the
strings.

Are there other aspects that are unclear?

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