On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Diego Jacobi<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/8/10 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]>: >> 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 >> > > Hi. > Maybe there could be an special character in the string dedicated to > break a word when it is required, and not drawed when it is not, like > the "_" to unterline a single character. So that, the developer or > translator is the responsable of breaking the words and not a > complicated and english-only algorithm. > > For example, i dont know if this word exists or not, but i taked it > from internet: > > pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis > > It could be writen with an special character, maybe the "!" inside a > word like this: > > "pneumono!ultra!microscopic!silico!volcano!coniosis" > > And so, if the text block needs to break it in 3 it will replace a "!" > sign by an "-\n" and delete the others by convenience. > > pneumonoultra- > microscopicsilico- > volcanoconiosis > > is just an easier idea >
That would work only on fixed strings, not dynamic user input, where it will be used the most. > Cheers. > Diego > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
