Re: your mail

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Steve,

The short answer is "there's no easy way".  SQR doesn't "know"
anything about the widths of characters in proportional fonts,
so it doesn't support centering, wrapping, or right justifying
which requires knowledge of individual character widths.

For more background on the topic, search the archives for
"proportional font" at:

   http://www.sqrug.com/sqr-users/

If you MUST do it, there are a few routines that I and others
have written that do some of what you want (wrapping and truncation,
in particular).  You may be able to adapt them.  One is on the library
pages at www.sqrug.com, the other is at:

   http://www.ontko.com/sqr/hp.html

Ray

> Hello,
>
>   Has anyone had any luck right-justifying a column of
> text using a proportional font?  My users want to see a
> report formatted as follows:
>
>      ORDER: 12345
>    LINE NO: 2
> ORDER DATE: 04/01/2000
>
>   where the end of the labels line up.  Unfortunately, I
> haven't been able to accomplish this using a
> proportional font (which, of course, is what they want
> to use for the report).
>
>   I am using SQR version 4.3.2.1.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>   Steve Greenwood
>

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