On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Thiago Borges Abdnur<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Thiago Borges Abdnur<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi guys! >> > >> > I'm trying to make a textblock wrap the text with wrap=word in style. >> > It's >> > working, but when long words are set, it doesn't break them. Isn't there >> > a >> > style option that tries to break the words and then, if there are words >> > that >> > won't fit, break them as wrap=char does? >> >> not there. I could say "go and do it", but bear in mind that this is >> tricky to get good. I did it once (2002) for Freevo project and lots >> of heuristics to have something acceptable in English... Latex uses >> hypenization mappings to know where to break it, and it changes >> between languages... just doing naive "if not word, break at ANY char" >> is bad, and somethings can cause weird meanings... also, need to add >> "-" and accounting that is tricky as well, as kerning and ligatures >> may change the size, you cannot say width of "-" is W, so I need room >> to fit W... you need to add it and recalculate the size, possible >> going back more than one character. >> >> Anyway, it can be done, we could even do some good heuristics, but it >> consumes lots of manpower... if you want to give it a try, be my guest >> :-) > > That would be much more complex. Just breaking the text anywhere would work > nicely, as wrap=char does.
thinking this is naive. It's good enough until you expose it, then people will come and complain, specially when you start breaking words making one half that is an aggressive/offensive/abusive word :-P -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi embedded systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [email protected] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
