character to justify text
Fred moyer
fmoyer at aol.com
Wed Jun 27 21:08:53 EDT 2007
I was just working on this justification problem 2 weeks ago and came
up with the following low-tech solution that manipulates the textsize
of spaces. This script:
- doesn't require any special stack preparation (adding images, etc.)
- preserves textstyles (except textsize.)
- allows the last straggling line in a paragraph to remain unjustified.
- and it allows for hyphenation, which means that you don't end up
having huge spaces between words.
This solution doesn't justify on the fly like Brian's script (very
nice, Brian!) There are also a few other bells and whistles I need to
add. But if this script is helpful, please use it. Also there may be
bugs in it -- I wrote it just for my own use. To use it just use
"justify " and the short id of the field.
Note: it does add "- " (dash and two spaces) inside hyphenated
words. So, in order to get back to the original text, I suggest this
script:
on GetRidOfHyphens fid
put the htmlText of fld id fid into hText
replace "- " with "" in hText
set the htmlText of fld id fid to hText
end GetRidOfHyphens
on justify fid
set the fixedLineHeight of fld id fid to true
set the cursor to watch
lock screen
set the backColor of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to empty
put " " into strangeCharThatLooksLikeASpace
put the htmlText of fld id fid into hText
replace strangeCharThatLooksLikeASpace with " " in hText
replace "- " with "" in hText
set the htmlText of fld id fid to hText
set the fixedLineHeight of fld id fid to true
set the backColor of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to empty
put fld id fid into FieldPlainText
---set the textsize of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to empty
put the number of chars in FieldPlainText into numberOfCharsInFld
put the textheight of fld id fid into FieldTextHeight
put the effective textsize of fld id fid into EffectiveTextSize
put empty into listofSpacesinThisLine
put 1 into CurrChar
put 1 into CharNoForFirstCharOfLine
put empty into CharNoForLastSpaceInLine
put trunc(EffectiveTextSize * .6) into SmallSpaceSize
if SmallSpaceSize < 8 then put 8 into SmallSpaceSize
---put "yes" into isThereAMax
--- = NO WHEN HYPHENATION IS NOT POSSIBLE AND YOU HAVE TO JUST GO
FOR IT
put 0 into charsToSkip
--- NEXT LOOP MAKES ALL SPACES IN THE FIELD A BIT SMALLER THAN NORMAL
repeat
put offset(" ",FieldPlainText,charsToSkip) into o
if o = 0 then exit repeat
set the textsize of char charsToSkip + o of fld id fid to
SmallSpaceSize
put charstoSkip + o into charstoSkip
end repeat
repeat
put "normal" into status
--- try to find the current "line" meaning: which words take up
one line
---put "yes" into isThereAMax
put char CurrChar of FieldPlainText into c
if c is in (" " & return) then
put the formattedHeight of char CharNoForFirstCharOfLine to
currChar of fld id fid into fh
if fh ² FieldTextHeight then
if c = return then
add 1 to currChar
put empty into listofSpacesinThisLine
put currChar into CharNoForFirstCharOfLine
else
put currChar & "," after listofSpacesinThisLine
put currChar into CharNoForLastSpaceInLine
--- WE NEED TO STORE THIS VALUE BECAUSE WHEN WE GO OVER
INTO TWO LINES, WE'LL NEED
--- TO REMEMBER THE LAST SPACE CHAR WHERE IT WAS JUST ONE
LINE
add 1 to currChar
end if
else
--- ALL OF THE FOLLOWING HAPPENS IF THESE WORDS TAKE UP TWO
LINES:
put last item of listofSpacesinThisLine into saveForHyphenation
delete last item of listofSpacesinThisLine
if listofSpacesinThisLine is empty then
--- THERE ARE NO SPACES IN THIS LINE!
--- WILL HAPPEN IF that line consists of only a return
--- OR MAYBE A REALLY REALLY LONG WORD!
--- SO START WITH THE NEXT LINE
put empty into listofSpacesinThisLine
put currChar + 1 into CharNoForFirstCharOfLine
put CharNoForFirstCharOfLine into currChar
else
--- STEP 1: MAKE SPACES BIGGER AND BIGGER UNTIL WE'RE INTO
2 LINES
put SmallSpaceSize into ts
repeat
add 1 to ts
if ts > EffectiveTextSize * 2 and status = "normal" then
--- WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN IF THE TEXTSIZE OF A SPACE
GETS TOO BIG
--- SO AT THIS POINT WE NEED TO HYPHENATE
--- FIND WORDTOBEHYPHENATED
put char CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + 1 to currChar - 1
of fieldPlainText into WordToBeHyphenated
repeat for each item i in listofSpacesinThisLine
set the textsize of char i of fld id fid to
SmallSpaceSize
end repeat
put 0 into hyphenTries
put the htmltext of char CharNoForFirstCharOfLine to
currChar - 1 of fld id fid into HTMLLinePlusExtraWord
repeat
set the backcolor of char CharNoForLastSpaceInLine +
1 to currChar - 1 of fld id fid to "red"
select char CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + 1 of fld id
fid -- SCROLL TO THE SPOT
select empty
if hyphenTries = 0 then
ask "Please hyphenate this word: (Just put '-'
inside it.) If no hyphenation is possible then don't change it." with
WordToBeHyphenated
else
Ask "Your last hyphenation did not work. Try
something else. If no hyphenation is possible then then don't change
it" with WordToBeHyphenated
end if
if it is WordToBeHyphenated then
put SmallSpaceSize into ts
put "NoMaxSpaceSize" into status
set the backcolor of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to
empty
add 1 to ts
exit repeat
else if it is empty or the result is not empty then
beep
set the backcolor of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to
empty
exit justify
else
put it into desiredHyphenation
set the backcolor of char 1 to -1 of fld id fid to
empty
put offset("-",desiredHyphenation) into o
put "- " before char (CharNoForLastSpaceInLine +
o) of fld id fid
--- put WordToBeHyphenated & "," & it & return
after gPastHyphens
put the formattedheight of char
CharNoForFirstCharOfLine to (CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + o + 2) of fld
id fid into postHyphenFH
if PostHyphenFH ² FieldTextHeight then
-- yay! hyphenation worked!
put (CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + o + 2) into
CharNoForLastSpaceInLine
put listofSpacesinThisLine & "," after
listOfSpacesInThisLine
put CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + 1 into currChar
put SmallSpaceSize into ts
put fld id fid into fieldPLainText
put the number of chars in fieldPlainText into
numberOfCharsinFld
exit repeat
else
set the htmltext of char
CharNoForFirstCharOfLine to currChar + 2 of fld id fid to
HTMLLinePlusExtraWord
add 1 to hyphenTries
end if
end if
end repeat
end if
repeat for each item i in listofSpacesinThisLine
set the textsize of char i of fld id fid to ts
if the formattedheight of char
CharNoForFirstCharOfLine to CharNoForLastSpaceInLine of fld id fid >
FieldTextHeight then
subtract 1 from ts
set the textsize of char i of fld id fid to ts --
ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS BRING DIMINISH ONE SPACE
put "done" into status
put empty into listofSpacesinThisLine
put CharNoForLastSpaceInLine + 1 into
CharNoForFirstCharOfLine
put CharNoForFirstCharOfLine into currChar
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if status = "done" then exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end if
else
add 1 to currChar
if currChar > numberOfCharsInFld then exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end justify
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