Full justification
Jim Hurley
jhurley at infostations.com
Sat Jul 30 10:06:17 EDT 2005
Perhaps another way to approach the problem of full justification for
non-proportional fonts is to insert spaces whose width is set to 1
point.
It turns out that the formatted width of the 2 point space character,
with the points size set to 2 pts, (at least in Times font) is 1
point. (Pardon the dual use of the word "point.")
If the width needed to fill in the line, so that the text is also
right-justified, is say N points, then one might distribute N spaces
between intervening words (each insert is one point in width.)
(I ran into one of the few instances where recursion is truly
useful--beside fractals and the Tower of Hanoi.)
To see this try (in the message box):
go stack url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/JustifyText.rev"
Jim
P.S. Thanks to Phil Davis for pointing out that the formattedText of
a field separates the lines. Thanks Phil.
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