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Re: CENTERING TEXT [message #13046 is a reply to message #13045]

Fri, 02 October 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) writes:

> David Sheerin wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to center text in a text widget?
>> Thanks for any help received.
>>
>> David
>
> David -
>
> I'm procrastinating, so here's a little procedure to do this...

Alas, this didn't work for me, given that my default font
is a proportionally spaced font. In fact, the text got cut
off. Apparently the character that is used to count "spaces"
is much smaller than the actual characters in my string.

In any case, I think centering text in a text widget is
probably impossible with proportionally spaced fonts.

Cheers,

David
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		Re: CENTERING TEXT By: davidf on Fri, 02 October 1998 00:00
		Re: CENTERING TEXT By: David Foster on Fri, 02 October 1998 00:00
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