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Post by minikomi » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 10:59 AM UTC

Post by hantusk » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 11:19 AM UTC

geelen wrote: post #7

m_eiman wrote: post #5

It'd be nice if the actual height of characters was taken into acount. Try: MY NAME är tårta

Yep! I really wanted this, but it's a bit more work. HTML5 canvas has a `measureText` method but it only returns width, so there's a few cases where the text will escape the box. The logic is really simple for now, but I'll hope to improve it in future. Would you mind submitting an issue with a screenshot of your text not rendering correctly? https://github.com/geelen/typeslab/issues

Post by jonnyscholes » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 12:02 PM UTC

Post by santa_boy » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

Post by geelen » Mon, Apr 13, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

hantusk wrote: post #13

geelen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep! I really wanted this, but it's a bit more work. HTML5 canvas has a `measureText` method but it only returns width, so there's a few cases where the text will escape the box. The logic is really simple for now, but I'll hope to improve it in future. Would you mind submitting an issue with a screenshot of your text not rendering correctly? https://github.com/geelen/typeslab/issues

Jason Davis explains how he gets the font size information for his d3.js word cloud here: http://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/about/ You might benefit from the same approach :)