You could try an svg text widget. Just a unsubstantiated thought. Sean Cole Pi Digital
> On 4 Sep 2022, at 20:35, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > My project, Music In the Air, has text on pages like a book where we need > Windows line wrapping to match exactly the Mac so that text flow to the next > page is identical. > > The solution I came up with is to process the text for Windows in advance—add > CRs to each visible line of the Mac text field then export the htmlText to > the data storage. When that htmlText is set in the Windows field, I also make > the field much wider. Now that every visible line ends with a CR, the visible > layout of words is the same as Mac. > > I’m doing this for both English and Chinese characters. (Displaying Chinese > characters to properly fill a field of text is a whole ’nother story, but I > won’t get into that here.) > > Peter Bogdanoff > ArtsInteractive > >> On Sep 4, 2022, at 4:49 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> I had a quick turnaround job for some guys in Ghana. It made it a complete >> nightmare as I had done the original build in Windows, their main platform, >> and they wanted a backup for Mac. As this was for a TV show where the text >> was dynamic but had to be identical on both it made it almost impossible. I >> had to write multiple conditionals to allow for the two platforms display >> differences of baselines and formatting. Now I recommend they only build for >> a single platform as it is ‘unreasonable’ to expect that two different >> systems will perform or display in the same way. >> >> Your disturbing highlight of the differences in MacOS appearance was not >> nice though. Well worth knowing but not great for us, eh? >> >> Sean >> >> >>>> On 4 Sep 2022, at 10:34, Neville Smythe via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> So I have conducted a more careful test of the proposed method of >>> standardising fonts across platforms, that is, installing some Google fonts >>> in the standalone for use in labels and fields, with the objective of >>> setting the rects of objects on the development platform and having the >>> same appearance on all 3 platforms: no more missing pixels or wrapped words >>> because of the differences in fonts between the platforms. >>> >>> Unfortunately the method does quite not give the hoped-for solution. Even >>> though the fonts supposedly have the same metrics, the appearance still >>> differs between platforms. For both NotoSans and NotoSerif I find the >>> baselines differ by one or two pixels between Mac Monterey and Windows >>> (which I don’t really understand, since the ascent is built into the font, >>> but nevertheless becomes different when rendered). The pixel lengths of the >>> tested strings were the same however: allowing just a couple of extra >>> pixels height should be sufficient in these cases. However on Linux >>> (Ubuntu), while the baselines were the same, the length of rendered strings >>> differed markedly, in one test case wrapping a trailing word out of sight. >>> And a nasty surprise, the text length on Mac High Sierra was 8% longer than >>> on Monterey! >>> >>> So I’m afraid one must still write once, test everywhere. >>> >>> Neville >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
