Or you can do word wrapping according to a specified maximum pixel width. I
made a few functions for this in a project.
Here's the code, its pretty self-explanatory.
def truncline(text, font, maxwidth):
Truncates a single line of text to given pixel size.
real=len(text)
It's pretty simple to split your string on carriage returns (and/or line
feeds), create surfaces for each line of text, and blit those surfaces to
the destination surface.
I'm doing something like that. I haven't yet gotten word-wrapping to work,
but the following out-of-context code does
