Justify text in a field

[Alejandro Tejada]

on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 
Jonathan Lynch wrote:

> As long as a field is wide enough, and a given
> screen line contains
> enough words, manipulating expanded and condensed
> characters should make
> this possible - sounds kind of difficult to me.

Yes, That's what i thought. :-(

on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 
xavier wrote:

> Actually IT IS POSSIBLE!!!
> Jonathan flipped my mind switch back in gear ;)
> Give a field's width w and the formattedwidth of the
> text in line l...
> you might have to add each word's formattedwith (and
> get pissed off
> at the definition of a word in rev) - then divide
> the difference by 
> the number of words in the line and then insert
> "tiny" spaces in between
> the words... This should do the trick...

I agree, but the ideal could be to use
unicode fonts, that have many spaces of 
different width. :-D

<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html>
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/spaces.htm>


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