JB,
FWIW, I believe the Rev text engine is something written specifically
for Rev to be cross-platform and does not plug in to platform specific
engines such as MLTE. So the upside is that they can pretty much do
whatever they want (and have it work cross platform). The downside is
that
Brian,
I had heard that too but then after hearing they were doing a rewrite
to improve
text and fields I was wondering if they were going the MLTE route. I
think MLTE
is based on ATSUI and if they used ATSUI it would allow kerning
tracking.
-=JB=-
On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Brian
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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:02:24 -0400
From: william humphrey shoreag...@gmail.com
Subject: Table field text formating
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
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I keep running into this problem and making work-arounds that are not at all
elegant. It would sure be wonderful if you could set the alignment in one
column of a table field to right and the next column in the same table
field to another alignment say left.
Is there a way to do this?
Jan William,
I keep running into this problem and making
work-arounds that are not at all
elegant. It would sure be wonderful if you could set
the alignment in one
column of a table field to right and the next
column in the same table
field to another alignment say left.
Is there a way
IMHO
Courier is the most universally available monospaced font. I like
slashed zeroes to contrast with UC O's. Also the open source
TruetypeProfont is severe to look at for code, but presents
a great image for numbers lists.
No testing on Windows - but these are long established
Thanks a lot. It is sure a lot easier to do that and display my data in one
big field than make lots of little ones which line up next to each other.
I see why people keep asking for better table field controls.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Stephen Barncard
stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com
Le 17 déc. 08 à 17:02, william humphrey a écrit :
I keep running into this problem and making work-arounds that are
not at all
elegant. It would sure be wonderful if you could set the alignment
in one
column of a table field to right and the next column in the same
table
field to another
--- william humphrey shoreag...@gmail.com wrote:
I keep running into this problem and making
work-arounds that are not at all
elegant. It would sure be wonderful if you could set
the alignment in one
column of a table field to right and the next
column in the same table
field to another
What is the name of the best non-proportional font to use for both windoz
and Mac? It is mainly for numbers. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a
non-proportional font that was proportional for just letters?
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On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
IMHO
Courier is the most universally available monospaced font.
stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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What would be really nice is if the Rev Team would supply a
character to be used. It seems a space is
-= JB =- wrote:
What would be really nice is if the Rev Team would supply a
character to be used. It seems a space is standard. Why not
provide a space character that is 1 point in size.
Then it would be simple math to justify text that would work on
any machine. You would be able to do your
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
-= JB =- wrote:
What would be really nice is if the Rev Team would supply a
character to be used. It seems a space is standard. Why not
provide a space character that is 1 point in size.
Then it would be simple math to justify text that
-= JB =- wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It would be far more efficient and robust if Rev simply added
independent column alignment as has been the #1 request for many
years.
I agree they should add independent column alignment. But they
should also
add a 1
On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
-= JB =- wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It would be far more efficient and robust if Rev simply added
independent column alignment as has been the #1 request for many
years.
I agree they should add independent
-= JB =- wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
...
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step
further to the mechanics of the underlying text rendering in the
field object to
On Dec 17, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
-= JB =- wrote:
On Dec 17, 2008, at 4:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
..
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty
around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step
further to the mechanics of
JB,
I think you may be vastly underestimating the task of supporting
kerning and tracking by using dummy spaces inserted into the flow of
text. Among other things, this would render your text impossible to
parse and be quite slow. What's appealing about strange 1 pixel
characters
Brian,
Whatever way it is done Rev should include it as a standard and then
they can advertise it
includes the ability for kerning and tracking. They can have a
standard key used to enter
the character. Maybe something like a control-space. Of course this
can probably be done
now using
Could you replace each space with an image whose width you've set?
Could you replace any character with a snapshot of itself whose width you've
set?
-- Dick
On 12/17/08 6:17 PM, -= JB =- sund...@pacifier.com wrote:
Brian,
Whatever way it is done Rev should include it as a standard and
I agree it would be a nice feature. I'm not so sure that it's so
simple. I would think it would be quite difficult to add pro layout
features like this to Rev's text engine with support for all platforms
and seamless backward compatibility.
Whatever way it is done Rev should include it as
That is why as a serious desktop publisher I haven't taken the time
to use the image idea. It
might be good for a very rare occasion to convert images but it does
not solve the problem
unless Rev does it all behind the scene as a standard.
And that leaves us where we are until Rev improves
-= JB =- wrote:
Look at it this way. With the 1 character added Rev could advertise it
allows both
Kerning and Tracking. To those in the publishing industry that means a
lot.
I can imagine the outcry that would occur if RR advertised kerning and
tracking and instead supplied a method
On Dec 17, 2008, at 7:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
-= JB =- wrote:
Look at it this way. With the 1 character added Rev could
advertise it allows both
Kerning and Tracking. To those in the publishing industry that
means a lot.
I can imagine the outcry that would occur if RR advertised
-= JB =- wrote:
You are right, they need to do a professional job. That is the whole
point of asking them
to add it instead of me doing something. I know the above statement by
me looks like I
am saying they could just add crap and claim it is professional. I
really don't mean that
and
On Dec 17, 2008, at 8:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I think the number of professional DTPers using Rev is probably
pretty small, and the overlap of those who both do DTP and want to
program is very narrow. Rev is a programming tool, and needs to
address a wide variety of features for
On 17-Dec-08, at 9:12 PM, Richard wrote:
It may be easier to get the exact feature you need than to ask
RunRev to
become a type foundry.
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step further
to the
John Vokey wrote:
On 17-Dec-08, at 9:12 PM, Richard wrote:
If all you need is a one-pixel font, I'm sure there are plenty around.
But perhaps we might ask why this is useful, and look one step further
to the mechanics of the underlying text rendering in the field
object to
get exactly what
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