Re: Wrapping Proportional Fonts

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

Julian,

> Does anyone have a solution to wrapping of proportional fonts ( mixed
> case and all uppercase )???

This requires a little work.  The basic problem is that SQR doesn't
know the widths of each character of a proportional font.  There
are solutions available for SQR, but they require you to obtain
or produce your own font metrics.

Take a look at:

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

which is a collection of routines that I wrote for handling
proportional fonts for hp printers, mostly for truncation.
I did not attempt to address the wrap problem, however.  For
that, you'll need to look at:

   http://www.sqrug.com/~ftp/wrap/

Unfortunately, it doesn't address the problem of how to come
up with the font metric information.

Hope this helps.

Ray
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