Subject: Re: [DSSSL] TeX's streching space (or rubber length) ? From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 10:43:41 -0400 (EDT) |
> 1- Is it possible to get TeX's rubber length with dsssl, or more > exactly Jade. what I want is more precisely the following : > > | | > |Some text left justified<----------------->Some text right justified| > | ^^^^ | > | blank space of variable length | Is this the same as a "leader flow object"? > If there is no simple construct for that, i think the same effect may > be given by defining a dsssl function. This function should create an > empty space of length "(display-size) - (length<<left text>> + > length<<right text>>). But I'm afraid I will go into trouble with > ports here, any exemple of such a function ? The hard part of this function is figuring out the size of a bunch of text -- that isn't possible in Jade. In Jade I can output a document that depends on a font on a machine where that font isn't even installed. So predicting the length of text in that font is impossible. Paul Prescod DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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