ArborX

tffit

Longname: t ext f rame fit   Open the Documentation Legend
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Summary
 Changes the attributes of text contained within a frame so that the whole of the text stream, up to a page break, fits the frame.
Example extract

Up to three text attributes can be selected for copyfitting. The macro shown below specifies the and macros: we don't, however, want to reduce the letter spacing to less than 50% of its current value, and have therefore specified that its value should not be less than 50%:

 tffit "th",20,200,0,100,"tlsb",50,1000,0,100

Syntax (SVNNA)
tffit  property or edge:t? (   min:f? (   max:f?  )  )  mode:n? (   actual:f?  )  update:n?
property or edge:t

The name of the text property macro or edges to scale whose value can be changed when copyfitting.
min:f

The minimum scaling acceptable.
max:f

The maximum scaling acceptable.
mode:n
0  Copy fit will be calculated automatically when the frame is re-formatted; if the amount of text within the frame has changed, its copyfitting factor will also be changed.
1  Copyfitting will be calculated once on the basis of the text contained in the frame when the tffit macro is applied; even if the amount of text within the frame changes, the copyfitting factor will not be changed.
2  Copy fit will be fixed at the value given for actual.
actual:f

This parameter over-rides min and max, and is a multiplier for the attributes 'real' value. An actual setting of, for instance, th ... 300 will simply increase the type height to 300%.
update:n
0  Turns off update frame's real values after copyfitting (or tying).
1  Turns on update frame's real values after copyfitting (or tying).
Example

The example below is useful when you just want to see what the text in a frame will look like in a larger type - without going to the bother of changing all the paragraph style tags:

 tffit "th",1,10000,2,150,"tlb",1,10000,2,150

Document created on 08-Feb-2003 (revision 1)