Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping

[Alexander Malmberg]

Benhur Stein wrote:
> One simple thing that could diminish the impact of a too small space
> to show all glyphs would be to not only show complete glyphs but also
> glyphs that are cut by the rectangle in NSString's -drawInRect:, and
> let them be clipped by the clipping rectangle. Most places where
> strings are cut because of one or two pixels, the cutting would not be
> perceptible, or at least would be better than what we currently have.

I think it'd be perceptible, but it would be a lot better than dropping 
complete characters. However, it isn't at all easy to convince the text 
system to do this instead of the normal word wrapping (which is what 
it's attempting now; after all, the label could be multi-line). I'll 
keep it in mind; maybe some sensible way of doing this will turn up.

(There are neat things one can do with a custom typesetter, but that 
seems excessive to me, and it isn't entirely easy to know _when_ to do 
the neat things.)

- Alexander Malmberg