character to justify text

[-= JB =-]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

> I've followed this thread with some interest!  I have to say that I  
> admire
> the creativity of using a "glyph" to cheat and force full  
> justification.
>
> As mentioned, Rev already provides the capability to have a "glyph"  
> without
> a custom font -- you just set the imagesource of the space  
> characters to a
> graphic of the appropriate pixel width. The beauty of this approach  
> is that
> the underlying text data is not changed. You still have the correct  
> number
> of characters, and they are still spaces. It would be very  
> interesting to
> see this executed to see how fast it performs.
>
> The number one request in the Quality Control Center happens to be  
> report
> #670, which is closely related to the basic issue here, which is a  
> more
> functional field object. Ideally, you'd want to have tracking,  
> kerning, and
> a bunch of other typographic affordances. An upgrade to the field  
> object is
> in the works, and it's non-trivial as it does have to work across  
> platforms.
>
> Until then, might I suggest a workaround which hasn't been  
> mentioned, which
> is to embed a browser. You'll be able to present text with full
> justification there. It will be a little more cumbersome to code  
> (and you
> cannot edit text directly) but it seems to me to be the most robust  
> solution
> for the time being.
>
>
>
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Thanks for the info.  I really do not need it today so maybe I will
wait and put my energy into something else.

It looks like Joe Wilkins will get his wish for now.

-=>JB<=-