Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-12 Thread Steve Christensen
For the time being I suppose you could query the Braille font for its maximum character width, then draw each character in a string individually, centering it horizontally within a rectangle that has the maximum width. That would mean manually advancing each character's position on a line

Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-12 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, James Jennings wrote: Override the character spacing of a font, or Override the definition of white space, or Override the word break algorithm. Overriding the spacing of a font is something that has been demonstrated at least once at WWDC, in the context of

Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-11 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
The Braille characters should probably be monospace. Please write a bug. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, James Jennings wrote: I want to display and edit simulated Braille. OS X has had Braille fonts since Tiger, so all I need to do is pass the

Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-08 Thread James Jennings
I want to display and edit simulated Braille. OS X has had Braille fonts since Tiger, so all I need to do is pass the correct Unicode codes to NSTextView, except the Braille fonts are proportional spaced, and I need monospaced. There is a Unicode entity called BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK which could