These are all things on my wish list as well. Some are 'trickable'
and doable but with some effort.
Tom
On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:01 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
As one who is spoiled by options for very precise control over type
all these years (Quark and now InDesign) the challenges of making
text look good in a Revolution field seem daunting.
I was wondering if any one had "rolled their own" typesetting
functions. I would rather not have to create multiple flds and then
group these with some being centered and others align left... so I
was thinking that one could, for example, center type but getting
some measurement of the len(the selection) and then inserting
something like
(an algorithm that needs real code:)
the total length of the line -(the length of type to be centered)/2
= (some number of spaces to insert in front of the text)
I may be dreaming about cheddar on Mars, because I don't see from
the docs any syntax that can provide a"real" correlation between len
(fooString) and pixelwidth(fooString) that can be translated back
into a tab width or number of spaces...as the pixel width of
fooString will vary by the charWidths of the chars in the string
and again, this has no correlation to the width of a space... and
tabs are out anyway, since you cannot set tabs on a per line basis.
(I hope this is on the feature list as a bare minimum upgrade to
text handling in the next version of rev) etc. etc. round in circles.
a typical thing one would like to be able to do, besides centering
type on a line in a field... would be formatting like this:
someTextLeftAligned [tab or string of spaces] SomeTextRightAligned
I'm hoping some of you may have already "been there done that and
yes it can be done... here's how"
My actual context is rolling credits in a single field with
centered headers for each section followed by
Correspondents
staff country
Photographers:
photographer country
etc.
now I can center all this and it looks fairly decent if you give up
aspirations for any more control and think "well the do it like
that in the movies and if you don't care about things lining up its
just fine..." But this may not fly when it goes up for review...
or I will have to say "sorry, this is all we get in Rev. we have to
live with it like this for now...
TIA
Sivakatirswami
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
subscription preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Thomas J McGrath III
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Semantic Compaction Systems
SCIconics, LLC
Lazy River Metal Arts
Lazy River Software™
&
Meeting Wear™ - Unique Apparel Design
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
[email protected]
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
