From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Text output
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:27:20 -0500
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Roland Moritz <hotel DOT moritz AT utanet DOT at> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I've got a question about Allegro and Text output:
> Has somebody here got a function (or knows about one) which can do the
same
> as text_out(), but that canges the lines, everytime it comes to the border
> of the screen (or a clipping range), AND does not "cut" the words in the
> middle, but only puts complete words in the next line (You know, like
> professional word processors do it), or will I have to write my own
> function? If I have to write it myself, could someone please give me a few
> hints on how to do this?

It depends. If you are using a monospace font (standard 8x8 'font',
'chicago' from DOSArena, etc.), start width characters into the line
and look to the left for the first space. It's a bit more complex with a
proportional font or with Unicode.