Re: Gem [text2D] including line breaks

IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:04:35 +0100

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On 1/28/26 14:36, Benjamin Wesch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 12:10 PM IOhannes m zmoelnig via Pd-list
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> like in the attached patch.
> 
> this is really cool - thanks for the contributions and inspiration,
> cyrille and iohannes!
> with left-aligned text, i saw that the lists with additional line
> break characters result in a leading whitespace on the left. 

yes.
that's because we are actually adding a *word* with the content "\n" - 
and the word is surrounded by whitespace.

basically, my advice is to use the [string( message with unicode points:
- use [file] to read the raw UTF-8 bytes
- use [unicode/utf82codenumber] to convert the UTF-8 bytes into 
unicode-points
- prefix [string(

this also allows you to render text with multiple consecutive whitespace 
characters ("   " vs " ").
note that the TAB character usually does not render as whitespace.

gfdasr
IOhannes
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