Thanks Romano - that's nice.  I didn't realise text faces were quite
that dynamic as I'm used to having to set aside space for them in a
layout to stop them being trimed when they're viewed.

On 06-May-02, Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:

> Hi Carl,

>> My biggest worry with this approach is you'll be making an awful
>> lot of faces, (one per word in your book), just to get their
>> length.

> You can always use the same faces:

> layout [
>    word1: text no-wrap font-size 16
>    word2: text no-wrap font-size 18
> ]
> for n 1 8 1 [
>    word1/text: line1/:n
>    word2/text: line2/:n
>    word-w: max first size-text word1 first size-text word2
>    append line-tabs 6 + word-w + last line-tabs
> ]

-- 
Carl Read

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