> Good day, > I'm working on a script for laying out a song book that includes > lyrics > and chords. Chord names need to be placed above each line of lyrics, > at > the appropriate spot in the lyrics. I've explored a variety of > approaches to this using typographic options to try to get the chord > letters bumped up above the lyrics line using baseline shift and > kerning > adjustments, but so far these have not proved effective. > > My present approach is to put each chord in a small text box above the > lyrics line. In order to do this, I need to be able to determine the > horizontal position of that point in the lyrics, as rendered in the > relevant font and type size. Does anyone know of a way to do this? > > Apparently the ImageFont python module (which is a subset of PIL, or > the > Python Imaging Library), can return the width of a text line as > rendered, but I so far have not been able to get this module working > properly (there's a C library involved, which is malfunctioning in my > installation). > > Does anyone know of any other way to programatically measure the > rendered width of a line of text?
I don't think I know the answer to your question, but: 1. does the Property Palette, (position) help? 2. in the Help->Manual->For Developers->Scripter API->getting Object Properties, there are a number of commands which may be of interest to you (but maybe not) -- Owen
