On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
-= 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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Well if a 1 pixel character is so common then it would be extremely
easy for
the Rev Team to include it and I would not have to add a font for it.
As for the usefulness it is unlimited. Text can be positioned where
you want
it not just aligned according to Left-Center-Right-Full. The one
point space
would allow kerning. The choice of alignment is important but
kerning it too.
Many people would never see a need for kerning but it needs to be
there for
those who who do want it.
-=>JB<=-
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