OpenEuphoria

Re: force a font?

• Posted by don cole <doncole at pacbell.net> Apr 14, 2005
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Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> I gotta weird question. Don't know if it even makes sense.
> It's from a user request.
> Is there such a thing as forcing a font in the text file?
> Not talking about html. I know I can do fonts in html. But simple plain text.
> 
> The problem is that for columns to line up correctly, the font has to be
> equal spaced. Each character has to have the same width. And the user wants
> this in txt, not html.
> 
> Is there any way to tell Windows (or whatever) to display the text file
> (not html) in a specific font?  Does this question make sense?
> 

Sorry about that.

Jerry I have a program I wrote and call printer2Col.e.
Basically what it does is:
  read all the columns 
  find the longest line in each column
  make all the rows in esch column the same width
  and finds the largest font to fit all columns on the page.
it works with screen or printer .

It would be easier for me to e-mail it to you than to try to explain it.
But I think it's exactly what you want.

Let mr know and I will send it to you.

Don Cole
SF