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Posted: **Thu Apr 07, 2016 3:49 pm**

Implicit breaking a string into lines filling a text string seems to fail.

I used version 8.0.0-dp-16 and tried:

fill text mText at top left of rectangle [0, 0, 50, 200] on this canvas

Think this is what Mark Waddingham suggested in another thread. Though the result
is that all words of a string are drawn in one line without wrapping at the edge.

For what it's worth even enforcing a multiline string by adding a new line like:

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put "Foo" into mText
put newline after mText
put "Bar" after mText

fill text mText at center of rectangle [0, 0, 50, 200] on this canvas

does not work as expected. The result is "Foo Bar" in one line.

Ralf

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:09 am**

The bad news is that, currently, you need to do multiline text rendering totally manually in LCB:

- Break into runs
- Draw each run using a separate call

The good news is that in the future, we'll add an API to access more high-level text layout (and text editing) capability!

Posted: **Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:50 am**

@Peter thanks very much for the info, this helps.

Ralf

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