[WASTE-list] monospace text

[Chinh Nguyen]

> Is using a monospaced font like Courier not sufficient to get

> uniform (and non-fractional) character widths?


No, and I only allow monospaced fonts.

As a test, I measured several lines of text using WEGetLineWidth().

For example, with a 12 point Monaco font, I get

a		linewidth=7 charwidth=7.00
ab		linewidth=14 charwidth=7.00
abcd		linewidth=29 charwidth=7.25
aaaa		linewidth=29 charwidth=7.25
1234		linewidth=29 charwidth=7.25
abcdefgh	linewidth=58 charwidth=7.25
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!.		linewidth=274 charwidth=7.22
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567 
89!.		linewidth=547 charwidth=7.20

So you can see why my constraining logic no longer works.

I had a similar problem with my output engine which uses Core  
Graphics for monospace text output and pixel relative drawing.  I  
solved it by  using CGContextSetCharacterSpacing() so that all my  
text lined up in uniform columns.  I think I need something similar  
in WASTE 3.  For now, I think I'll just measure a bunch of characters  
to get a decent char width stored as a float and use that for  
calculating the constraint.

Thanks for the reply.

-Chinh Nguyen
  cnguyen at stata.com