Re: Question about gtk_label_set_justify()

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:09:40AM +0200, Richard Boaz wrote:
> > so far, all discussion of this problem has related to whether or not a
> > solution resides wholly withing gtk/pango/cairo/whatever.
> >
> > it would seem to me that the fact that gtk/pango/cairo/whatever does not
> > provide a built-in solution for chinese style justification only means
> > that the solution must be found elsewhere.
> >
> > namely, before rendering the label string, provide your own function that
> > creates the string exactly as you would want it to be displayed, simply
> > using spaces to fill out the string accordingly, and then provide this new
> > string to render the label.
> >
> > whynot?
>
> How do you achieve an exact width just by adding spaces?
>
> If the program is Chinese-only and gives up the possibility
> to be ever internationalized right away, well, one can
> create a Pango layout, measure all the glyphs in the label,
> calculate the space to put between them and then render the
> glyphs one by one to the calculated positions -- this all
> encapsulated in a new widget, something like MyChineseSpreadLabel.
> Of course this assumes there is an easy way to tell how
> a string is broken to glyphs for Chinese.

Pango does full justification already in PangoLayouts, therefore it 
would seem logical to figure out what needs to be done to make it work 
for Chinese.
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