Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Benhur Stein wrote:
>
> > One simple thing that could diminish the impact of a too small space
> > to show all glyphs would be to not only show complete glyphs but also
> > glyphs that are cut by the rectangle in NSString's -drawInRect:, and
> > let them be clipped by the clipping rectangle. Most places where
> > strings are cut because of one or two pixels, the cutting would not be
> > perceptible, or at least would be better than what we currently have.
>
>
> I think it'd be perceptible, but it would be a lot better than 
> dropping complete characters. However, it isn't at all easy to 
> convince the text system to do this instead of the normal word 
> wrapping (which is what it's attempting now; after all, the label 
> could be multi-line). I'll keep it in mind; maybe some sensible way of 
> doing this will turn up. 

I have two questions:
(1) Why is it more feasible to make a label taller than to make it
   wider?
(2) The notion of word wrapping applies only to text consisting of
   two or more words (and perhaps implicit/explicit delimitors
   between those words, depending on the nature of a language in
   use). What happens for a single, lengthy word, which can be
   seen more frequently in German than in English?

Thanks,
Kazunobu Kuriyama