"Typesetting" functions

[Bill Marriott]

Sivakatirswami,

Have you looked into whether formattedWidth, formattedHeight and other 
formatted* commands will help you achieve this? I don't think you'll be able 
to get kerning control or Quark-like results when printing, but these 
functions may be of use when trying to get screen elements to look right.

Bill

"Sivakatirswami" <katir at hindu.org> wrote in 
message news:FA40421A-B673-4B13-A1CE-8BAE1ADF0257 at hindu.org...
> I was wondering if any one had "rolled their own" typesetting  functions. 
> I would rather not have to create multiple flds and then  group these with 
> some being centered and others align left... so I  was thinking that one 
> could, for example, center type but getting  some measurement of the 
> len(the selection) and then inserting  something like
>
> (an algorithm that needs real code:)
>
> the total length of the line -(the length of type to be centered)/2 = 
> (some  number of spaces to insert in front of the text)