I have a tall UILabel with numberOfLines 0 (meaning infinite). The problem remains the same even if numberOfLines is some large finite number such as 20, so that's not the source of the problem.
I am creating an attributed string like this: NSString *s1 = @"The Gettysburg Address, as given by A. Lincoln on a certain occasion\n"; NSString *s2 = @"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."; NSString* title = s1; NSMutableAttributedString* content = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:title attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-BoldMT" size:15], NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.251 green:0.000 blue:0.502 alpha:1], NSKernAttributeName:[NSNull null]}]; NSString* blurb = s2; NSMutableAttributedString* content2 = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:blurb attributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Georgia" size:14], NSKernAttributeName:[NSNull null]}]; [content appendAttributedString:content2]; // additional code will go here self.lab.attributedText = content; It works fine; I see the title and the paragraph. Now, you see where it says "additional code will go here"? In that spot, I add paragraph styles to my attributed string, like this: NSMutableParagraphStyle* para = [NSMutableParagraphStyle new]; para.headIndent = 10; para.firstLineHeadIndent = 10; para.paragraphSpacingBefore = 5; para.tailIndent = -1; para.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping; [content addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName value:para range:NSMakeRange(0,title.length)]; para = [NSMutableParagraphStyle new]; para.headIndent = 10; para.firstLineHeadIndent = 10; para.tailIndent = -1; para.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail; para.paragraphSpacing = 5; [content addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName value:para range:NSMakeRange(title.length,1)]; NSStringDrawingContext* con = [NSStringDrawingContext new]; CGRect r = [content boundingRectWithSize:CGSizeMake(280,10000) options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin context:con]; NSLog(@"%f", r.size.height); The result (and this is the problem) is that the label truncates after the **first line** of the second paragraph ("Four score and seven years ago, our fa…"). Why? There's plenty of room in my label for more lines! Moreover, I am trying to predict the height that my text will occupy. Right now I'm just logging the result, as shown above. Without those paragraph styles, I get 121, which looks right. With the paragraph styles, I get 53, which suggests that the truncation is taking place here too! Now, I know that I can fix the problem by changing NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail to NSLineBreakByWordWrapping for the second paragraph. But I don't want to! Because if in fact the text is too long for the height of the actual label, I do want ellipses at the end! So how can I get tail truncation **when the label is too short**, without getting **unnecessary** truncation after the first line of the second paragraph? Thx - m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, http://www.apeth.net/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Programming iOS 5! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023562.do RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com