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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do I get the List Manager to right justify text?
Message-ID: <7502@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 1 Jun 89 20:45:29 GMT
References: <8071@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <32109@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <8071@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
(Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>The List Manager's standard list definition procedure draws text into each
>cell with left justification.  Short of writing my own list defproc, is
>there any simpler way to force right justification?

In article <32109@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron "No Comments" Han)
writes:
>Not really.  You MIGHT try messing with the system justification but that
>is not really guaranteed to work.
>
>Writing a custom LDEF is pretty easy.  If you need help let me know.

And if all you're doing is drawing text, it's pretty damn near
trivial.  LDEFs are by far the cleanest of all the system's definition
resources.  Julian's reluctance probably comes from some familiarity
with the other, trickier definition procedures.  Trust us, Julian, it's
very easy to do what you want.  Maybe thirty lines of code at the
absolute most.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
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