[Scribus] Fill Characters?

[Craig Bradney]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 10:50, Petr Van?k wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 of April 2005 07:57, Steve Jacobs wrote:
> > This<I/S>That
> > Something<I/S>Else
> >
> > generated
> >
> > This            That
> > Something       Else
> >
> > Insert Leader did the same thing, but using dots instead of white space.
> >
> > It seems to me this would be fairly easy to script, if there is a Python
> > function which will return the amount of unsed space remaining in a
> > line. Is there such a thing?
>
> unfortunately there is no function for it. Craig R. have tested some font
> metrics via Python but with very small luck (=no luck imho;))
>
> I use small workaround - set forced formating on the text frame. Text is
> formated then:
> this that                      something
> there is unbreakable space between 'this' and 'that'.
>
> This is the way I'm using in table of contents generator hack for 1.2x
> series

And I havent yet worked it out for the table of contents generator in 1.3.x, 
just using monospaced fonts for now. TODO.

Craig
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