My goal is to add automatic kashida/tracking to my text
for example, see text marked with 1 and 2
the second one (2) has automatic kashida/tracking
it's also required to apply this to any font ..
PS: I tried kerning, and it adds white space between words, this is irrelevant to the question.
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For a UILabel of certain width, with certain font and font size, i want to calculate amount of characters that would make 7 lines worth of text inside it + ... (three dots showing continuation). Is there a fancier way to achieve this? Currently what i'm trying is counting up to X amount of characters or 7 new line characters, which ever comes first and i cut on the text right there.
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Trying to make an expandable row Cell which contains the UILabel, i'm achieving this with auto layout... So to control the cell expansion, i change the text to be full text or a substring of that, with a button below which toggles between the string vs substring. All of that is working. The problem i'm getting is my method of finding the substring isnt very neat. Its not consistent on how it handles text of different combination of characters or newlines. I get variations of how it looks and sometimes it just ends with three dots on a new line rather than finishing on the 7th line.
Even using auto layout you can still use the lines property of UILabel to limit the number of lines displayed by the label.
So set it 7 and you'll get 7 or less rows. Just assign the complete text.
For example, I have the following two string: "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?" and "S22 - E7". I want to present in the label the following: "How Munched is That Birdie in ... S22 - E7" If the string is too large according to the label's size and doesn't fit it". How you can see, the three dots are placed always in the first string, the second string is always shown full.
How can I achieve this?
Here is how to do it.
yourlabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = false
yourlabel.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingMiddle
You can set the UILabel's ParagraphStyle LineBreakMode to byTruncatingMiddle, which will probably work in most cases with carefully planned label size. From the docs:
The line is displayed so that the beginning and end fit in the container and the missing text in the middle is indicated by an ellipsis glyph. This mode is used for single-line layout
If you want to guarantee none of the "S22 - E7" string is truncated, you would have more control using two labels and setting layout constraints such that the width of the protected label is preserved so that it can display the full string whenever possible, but that is probably overkill in most cases.
You may also find this answer helpful if decide to go a different route by manually manipulating the displayed string based on detecting how many characters will be visible given the width and font.
I'm using PHP to generate docx documents from a database. The generated document contains column charts which have labels attached (i.e. user shapes containing textboxes). In an attempt to get the textboxes to accommodate and display all of the text (i.e. it shouldn't be necessary for the user to resize a textbox to see all the text) my code calculates how many characters will fit into 3cm, adds linefeeds to the string as required and tells me how many lines of text are needed. I have:
<a:xfrm xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main">
<a:off x="1638276" y="1676399"/>
<a:ext cx="1257325" cy="'.(252000 * $labelLeftLines).'"/>
</a:xfrm>
which I believe should give me a text box around 3.5cm wide (extra .5 for the internal padding) and a height of .7cm multiplied by whatever is the value of $labelLeftLines. However, the text box always turns up as 3.cm wide by .86cm high, which only ever displays one line of text.
If I add in 'autofit':
<a:bodyPr xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" vertOverflow="clip" wrap="square" rtlCol="0">
<a:spAutoFit/>
</a:bodyPr>
the generated file looks just the same, though, when I right click on the textbox to inspect the properties, 'autofit' is indeed applied. I have to uncheck it and recheck it to make it affect the textbox.
Any openXML gurus out there?
Hmm, some random floundering around revealed that the values I need to manipulate are here:
<cdr:relSizeAnchor xmlns:cdr="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/chartDrawing">
<cdr:from>
<cdr:x>0.47</cdr:x>
<cdr:y>0.75</cdr:y>
</cdr:from>
<cdr:to>
<cdr:x>0.67</cdr:x>
<cdr:y>1</cdr:y>
</cdr:to>
Changing those values does actually change the size of the texbox, though I haven't a clue what units are being used. From 0.75 to 1 produces a height of 1.43cm.
One day I'll maybe be able to find my way around the doucmentation.
How can we set the space between lines in an rdlc textbox?
Scenario:
The application shall be printing a report to a pre-printed stationary sheet.
One string field of the report is usually having about 400 characters of data (description input by user), which shall be printed in multiple lines.
As a workaround to the problem of not able to set LineHeight property of textbox control in rdlc, I have written a custom code which will insert new line characters into the string (by adding Environment.NewLine) such that the string is splitted into multiple lines. However, I am not able to set the space between each line in the text box. I have tried setting both SpaceAfter and SpaceBefore property. No change :-(
I also tried using VbCrLf and combination of Chr(10) and Chr(13) instead of Environment.NewLine. Did not help... Can you help!!!
I am using VS2010 Premium Edition and Application Target of 4.0 framework.
I added new textboxes for each lines to my report and set position for them with necessary line spacing.
because Line spacing in textbox properties is not applied.
This is how I do it. (It works only between paragraphs, not within a single paragraph where the lines wrap.) Say the font is 12 pt, and I want a little space between paragraphs, but not full double-spacing. I put the extra line between paragraphs, and then I select that empty line and set the font to 6 pt. If I wanted 1.5 spacing, I'd set it to a larger font.
Latex seems to fill in white space between the paragraphs by default, to get every page to end at approx the same height (at least with the book and scrreprt class). This is all fine, but I have a couple of pages with only two paragraphs. Latex insists on putting in 2cm of white space between them, which looks bad. I know that I can use \raggedrift for the whole document, but I kind of like the white fill except for the pages with only two paragraphs. I have also tried to adjust manually with \vspace{-1cm}, but it doesn't seem to work.
Is there a way to set a maximum value to the height of white fill between paragraphs?
If your mostly-empty pages are because the following content starts on a new page (at the end of a chapter, for example), then the easiest way to fix it is probably to insert a vertical fill after your last paragraph. The vertical fill should expand to occupy the extra space, keeping the inter-paragraph fill small.
You can change the vertical space applied to every paragraph by setting the value of \parskip.
The solution is very simple. At the end of the last paragraph of the page, add '\vfill'. This will fill up the rest of the page, making the two paragraphs on it move as close to each other as they would normally.
I just tested it myself and it works.