[texhax] Non-proportional font availability

[William Adams]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:38 PM, hgi at shaw.ca wrote:

> I now have a nice, in-house, two-column newsletter that our branch  
> uses to generate awareness in other branches.  It goes out once a  
> month, is a one-pager (two sides), yet presents some useful  
> information.
>
> I'm now setting it up so everything can be generated automatically  
> using a Python program to generate the Tex (LaTex) code.
>
> My  difficulty is that I have little "title bars" in blue (with  
> white text inside) just above each tiny section.  So it would be  
> great, when titles are entered, to know that a titlebar is say, 50  
> characters in width and since the heading itself is (for example)  
> 30 chars in width, I need to pad 20 characters with the blue  
> colour.  In this way all titlebars are exactly the same width,  
> regardless of how much text they contain.
>
> So I am wondering if there is a fairly nice looking font that I  
> might access for titles, that is likely non-proportional, so I can  
> dynamically create equal-width titlebars throughout my little  
> document.

?!?

Why do this based on character count?

Wrap it up in a box which is \textwidth wide and format the box  
appropriately and let TeX work things out.

William

-- 
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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