Text Wrapping

Hi Everyone,

I searched around for a post but nothing I found attempted to try this specifically.

I would like to wrap text into multiple lines.

Right now i have a long list of tweets and I am would like to to tag them to a point. The result is a very long line of text starting form the point. If there is some component in grasshopper that can put a limit on the amount of words per line and appropriately start a new line.

Thank you for your help.

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Permalink Reply by Manuel Cordero on June 21, 2016 at 2:20pm

In case anyone missed it there is an attachment that better explains what i am going after.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 21, 2016 at 2:29pm

Nothing in standard Gh I think. You can break apart a string of characters at spaces and end up with a list of words. But how you are supposed to recombine them into lines that do not exceed X characters I don't know. Are you just looking to limit at a fixed number of characters or are you actually looking to layout the text in a fixed width container?

At least the fixed character splitting would be trivial to do in C# or Python.

Permalink Reply by Manuel Cordero on June 21, 2016 at 2:30pm

Thank you for the reply.

How would one go about he fixed width container method?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 21, 2016 at 2:36pm

In that case you need to also specify the font you want, because different fonts will require different widths for a specific piece of text.

In that case you'll definitely need to resort to scripting (I can help out with C#, not python) because string measuring methods are definitely not available through regular GH/Rhino channels.

Permalink Reply by Manuel Cordero on June 21, 2016 at 2:37pm

I am not familiar with writing C#, any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 21, 2016 at 3:00pm

Well, hope this works.

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