Line length

[Devin Asay]

There is also a measureText() function that might help.

Devin

> On Oct 24, 2020, at 4:35 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Richmond,
> 
>> Am 24.10.2020 um 12:17 schrieb Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Over in the Forums someone has asked a question about measuring the length of text lines.
>> Of course one can count characters, but in most alphabetic systems different characters have different lengths.
>> Is there a way to measure the length as in LENGTH of a line rather than count the number of characters it
>> contains?
> 
> ...
> put the formattedwidth of line 1 of fld 1
> ...
> 
>> Richmond.
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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> Klaus Major
> https://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major-k.de
> 
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Devin Asay
Director
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University