http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/fixed/2011-11-11T21:29:21-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2011-11-11T21:29:21-08:00Michael Foglemanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4171845/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577946-word-wrap-for-proportional-fonts/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577946 by <a href="/recipes/users/4171845/">Michael Fogleman</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/fixed/">fixed</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/font/">font</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/proportional/">proportional</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text/">text</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/word/">word</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/word_wrap/">word_wrap</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wrap/">wrap</a>). </p> <p>Word wrap function / algorithm for wrapping text using proportional (versus fixed-width) fonts.</p> <p><code>text</code>: a string of text to wrap <code>width</code>: the width in pixels to wrap to <code>extent_func</code>: a function that returns a (w, h) tuple given any string, to specify the size (text extent) of the string when rendered. the algorithm only uses the width.</p> <p>Returns a list of strings, one for each line after wrapping.</p>