-= JB =- wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It would be far more efficient and robust if Rev simply added
independent column alignment as has been the #1 request for many
years.
I agree they should add independent column alignment. But they
should also
add a 1 point space for people so they can justify text how they want
it to look.
There are many cases where this would be very useful. It would be
nice to
have the choice because both are very important.
It may be easier to get the exact feature you need than to ask RunRev to
become a type foundry.
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step further
to the mechanics of the underlying text rendering in the field object to
get exactly what we most want. It may be that such additions would
become trivial once RunRev adds independent column alignment to fields.
Slogging through big blocks of text line by line and/or word by word,
measuring each and adding/subtracting a number of special one-pixel
characters can be quite slow, and not the sort of thing I enjoy teaching
to newcomers for simple text alignment.
So hopefully instead we can just get the appearance we want just as we
want it at the moment it's rendered. I doesn't hurt to ask. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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