On Tuesday 12 April 2005 10:50, Petr Van?k wrote: > On Tuesday 12 of April 2005 07:57, Steve Jacobs wrote: > > This<I/S>That > > Something<I/S>Else > > > > generated > > > > This That > > Something Else > > > > Insert Leader did the same thing, but using dots instead of white space. > > > > It seems to me this would be fairly easy to script, if there is a Python > > function which will return the amount of unsed space remaining in a > > line. Is there such a thing? > > unfortunately there is no function for it. Craig R. have tested some font > metrics via Python but with very small luck (=no luck imho;)) > > I use small workaround - set forced formating on the text frame. Text is > formated then: > this that something > there is unbreakable space between 'this' and 'that'. > > This is the way I'm using in table of contents generator hack for 1.2x > series
And I havent yet worked it out for the table of contents generator in 1.3.x, just using monospaced fonts for now. TODO. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050412/0722eb7b/attachment.pgp
