Wrapping a long title

[mango]

I want to split a title across multiple lines on my WPS. With a monospaced font I could calculate the number of characters on a line and use %ss to split the title. Do you have any suggestions on how to do this with a variable width font?

[Dook]

There is no straightforward method unfortunately. I do mine with some reasonable guestimates, check out my implementations in Themify and adwaitapod simplified.

[iPodVT]

With a monospaced font I could calculate the number of characters on a line...

How would you do that?

[gnomacor]

It kind of doesn't matter if it's variable width or not - you can slice it up regardless with a sensible number. You can check out wavy theme and it turns this up to 11: each and every letters are sliced positioned letter by letter. As Dook said there is no better way as of now.

[chronicallyoffline]

With a monospaced font I could calculate the number of characters on a line...

How would you do that?

From the CustomWPS page
 
%?if(%ss(0, 20, %it), =, %it)<track title length is 20 characters or less|track title length is over 20 characters>

I've attempted it, but the issue is there's no way to guarantee a break on a space unless there's some additional conditional wizardry we can do.

[Dook]

With a monospaced font I could calculate the number of characters on a line...

How would you do that?

From the CustomWPS page
 
%?if(%ss(0, 20, %it), =, %it)<track title length is 20 characters or less|track title length is over 20 characters>

I've attempted it, but the issue is there's no way to guarantee a break on a space unless there's some additional conditional wizardry we can do.

I've made a way recently to achieve this, but it's not foolproof since it relies on Bilgus' new file reading tag. There's no way within the theme spec to obtain a whitespace character for comparisons to make a conditional algorithm for breaking on space.

[iPodVT]

From the CustomWPS page
 
%?if(%ss(0, 20, %it), =, %it)<track title length is 20 characters or less|track title length is over 20 characters>

I've attempted it, but the issue is there's no way to guarantee a break on a space unless there's some additional conditional wizardry we can do.

Thanks.  So you are hardcoding a specific mono spaced font which allows you to pre know exactly how many chars you can fit in the horizontal space?

[iPodVT]

I've made a way recently to achieve this, but it's not foolproof since it relies on Bilgus' new file reading tag. There's no way within the theme spec to obtain a whitespace character for comparisons to make a conditional algorithm for breaking on space.

Thanks.  And what if the second line of text doesn't fit within the horizontal space - does it scroll or wrap again or just get clipped/truncated?  The Title, Artist, Album, etc ID3 tags for Classical Music can sometimes be extremely verbose.

Do you ever notice any processing time lags in your WPS?

I will have to try out these various themes and also look at their code.