Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
Could't it be done by metapost?
no, that is overkill, but what can be done is:
\startbuffer
the label
\stopbuffer
\externalfigure[buffer][factor=max]
or
\scale[factor=max]{\framed[align=normal]{the label text}}
that would scale each label to fit best
but it would look funny (all those different sizes)
a more clever solution would choose different sizes for different label
components depending on the result
(there is a rudimentary strategy mechanism, one day i will perfect that,
which can be used to optimize whole documents, think of manipulating the
distance in columns, or fontsizes in order to stick within a certain
amount of pages; pretty old and rusty code btw)
Wolfgang
Hans Hagen schrieb:
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Hints about that, or a native TeX method[1], would be very much
appreciated. At the moment it is a relatively slow process of manual
trial and error.
this is something tex is pretty good at and it runs as fast as normal
how does your current code look? (the solution depends a bit it);
think of something
\doloop{
\setbox\scratchbox=\vbox
{the content of the label}
\ifx\ht\scratchbox>10cm
\switchtobodyfont[small] \else
\unvbox\scratchbox
\exitloop
\fi
}
Hans
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