need width of proportional fonts -- we'll all benefit from this

[sfullman]

Hello All,

About to begin an adventurous project which will flow text evenly into columns like a newspaper. one of the worst things, layout-wise, is paragraphs that span 450, 550 or mor pixels.

I'd like to get the width in pixels of Verdana, Times New Roman, and Arial fonts, in sizes from 9 to 14 pixels (forget about em's or etc, I can translate), including the white space to the right of each letter. This will allow me to run though a calc and come to a splitting point.

I could cut and paste into a graphics program at 6 different px sizes (9-14), for 3 different fonts, for 26 different letters, but

6 6 26

is way more that I want to think about :-)

Once this is completed I'll post this coding for all, BTW it uses CSS and not tables and is robust.

thanks,
Sam Fullman

[crosbystillsnas]

i am not sure if this helps here... are fonts displayed in the same way on all systems? i dont know. but concerning text-sizes i'd rather go with this

[drawmack]

why not use css to explicitly define the size of the output box (either a div or table cell) and then use css to justify the text?