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Subject: Re: Text Spacing on Laser & Fractional Font Sizes?
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Rather than using SpaceExtra to do full justification, I suggest using
DrawJust, or its younger sibling, NDrawJust.  Both take a slop
parameter that controls just how much to stretch the line.  NDrawJust
also takes scaling parameters (like StdText does) which will help you
achieve fractional font sizes.

The only catch lies in finding the documentation for these routines --
they're not listed in IM.  DrawJust is described in the Script Manager
2.0 interim chapter of IM (strangely, this isn't part of IM VI).
NDrawJust is listed in a document titled roughly "Guide to Worldwide
Software Development" which is part of IM VI.  Both documents are also
available from APDA, and, I think, on the Developer CD.

					--Tom Lippincott
					  lippin@math.berkeley.edu

 "Ask a fish head anything you want to.  It won't answer you; they can't talk."