On 11 Dec 2010, at 07:16, Murat Konar wrote: > Maybe CourierNewPS-BoldMT is not a monospaced font?
It sounds like one of those rip-off fonts that have polluted the font space. Is plain Courier not available on iOS? I have some links about fonts from one of my pages (click the 'here' links): http://www.ianjoyner.name/Ian_Joyner/Fonts.html > > _murat > > On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Phillip Mills wrote: > >> I've been having one of those "I must be doing something stupid" days. The >> code I'm trying to write needs to pad one string with spaces so that certain >> characters line up visually with selected characters in a different string >> (within a view). It seemed like a relatively easy task as long as I could >> require the use of a monospaced font. However, it comes out looking various >> kinds of wrong depending on how many spaces I add. I've tried this with a >> number of Courier variants with the same result. >> >> The following test seems to confirm that a string of spaces does not render >> in the same bounding box as a string of alphanumeric characters or >> punctuation marks. (Also, that there may not be a neat and obvious formula >> for how to compensate.) Are these results reproducible? Was a fixed-size >> character width a bad assumption? Or is it a bug? >> >> - (void)debugFont { >> UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"CourierNewPS-BoldMT" size:24]; >> >> // With 22 characters, there's a width difference of 9 >> NSString *s1 = @"1234567890123456789012"; >> NSString *s2 = @" "; >> >> // The choice of non-space character doesn't seem to matter >> NSString *s5 = @"......................"; >> >> // With 23 characters, there's a width difference of 10 >> NSString *s3 = @"12345678901234567890123"; >> NSString *s4 = @" "; >> >> NSLog(@"....@. size: %f", s1, [s1 sizeWithFont:font].width); >> NSLog(@"....@. size: %f", s2, [s2 sizeWithFont:font].width); >> NSLog(@"....@. size: %f", s5, [s5 sizeWithFont:font].width); >> NSLog(@"....@. size: %f", s3, [s3 sizeWithFont:font].width); >> NSLog(@"....@. size: %f", s4, [s4 sizeWithFont:font].width); >> } >> >> 2010-12-10 14:19:03.936 FontTest[1834:207] .1234567890123456789012. size: >> 317.000000 >> 2010-12-10 14:19:03.937 FontTest[1834:207] . . size: >> 308.000000 >> 2010-12-10 14:19:03.938 FontTest[1834:207] ........................ size: >> 317.000000 >> 2010-12-10 14:19:03.938 FontTest[1834:207] .12345678901234567890123. size: >> 332.000000 >> 2010-12-10 14:19:03.939 FontTest[1834:207] . . size: >> 322.000000 >> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
