Re: The joy of Typography

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:26:14 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-10-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
 

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:44:26 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>

I wrote some routines to generate my columnar reports in PDF. On the
whole it worked fairly well, but I never found a way to right-justify
a field.  Then it became a pain in the ass.

>
You mean “right-align”, not “right-justify”. Here’s a routine that does
alignment of text within a given line width, based on the current
point, using the current font settings. It can do left-align,
right-align, centre-align and anything in-between.

 
<snip sample code>
 
Thanks.  I've stored that for future reference.

And if you want to see the actual output from that complete script,
it’s here:
<https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Text-Align-Justify-521316812>.

That comes from the “text_align_justify” example in this repo
<https://gitlab.com/ldo/qahirah_examples>.

 
I had a hard time finding detailed PDF documentation that I was
beginning to wonder whether I was looking for trade secrets...

Mine is just one of many wrappers for the Cairo 2D graphics API
<https://www.cairographics.org/>. I like to think of my wrapper as the
most “Pythonic” one, since I tried to make it look like the graphics
API was designed for Python.

I also put together some Jupyter notebooks illustrating various aspects
of the Cairo+Qahirah API <https://gitlab.com/ldo/qahirah_notebooks>.