character to justify text

-= JB =- sundown at nwrain.net
Tue Jun 26 22:59:53 EDT 2007


Thanks, but I don't want to make a font because
people would need it if they copied my text and
it would not be obvious they needed the font if
the character is invisible.

-=>JB<=-

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On 6/27/07, -= JB =- <sundown at nwrain.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>   The problem with making a font and
>> then using my own character it would change the character count.
>> Of course I could easily add the character and then subtract it but
>> who knows what other weird things I might find.
>>
>
>
> One thought, if you're going to go to all the trouble of making  
> your own
> font, is to include several versions of the space character, ie a 3  
> pixel
> space, a 4 pixel space, etc etc. Maybe accessible via spacebar = 3px,
> option+spacebar = 4px, shift+option+spacebar = 5px. Then I assume a  
> simple
> 'repeat for each' replacing each standard 3px space with a 4px  
> space until
> you get to the required width, and if you replaced all in a line  
> and it
> still wasn't wide enough you go on to 5px, 6px etc etc.
>
> That way the char count wouldn't change.
>
> Just a thought, but then again, the thought of creating a font from  
> scratch
> seems pretty daunting to me ;-)
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