when to apply paragraphBottomSpacing

[jo]

I tried to use paragraphBottomSpacing and was hoping that drawbot would interpret \n as still the same paragraph and only apply the extra white space once I use a \r.

So there should only be extra white space after the line 'with new lines' but not after the other newlines.

txt = 'Some Text\nwith new lines\rIs a return\na new line\ror a new paragraph?'
fstr = FormattedString(txt, paragraphBottomSpacing=3)
newPage(150, 150)
text(fstr, (20, 110))

hope that makes sense, thanks

[frederik]

I guess this is a coreText thing. When composing the same text with hard returns and soft returns (shift + enter) in TextEdit, there is no difference between soft and hard returns.

I guess you'll need to script it and change the the bottom spacing for text-runs with soft returns.

[jo]

oké
I had some small hope but thanks for testing and clarifying!

not very elegant but kind of working:

txt = 'Some Text\nwith new lines\rIs a return\na new line\ror a new paragraph?'

paras = [[l + '\n' for l in p.split('\n')] for p in txt.split('\r')]

newPage(150, 150)

fstr = FormattedString()
for para in paras:
    for l in para:
        extra_space = 5 if l == para[-1] else 0
        fstr.append(l, paragraphBottomSpacing = extra_space)
text(fstr, (20, 110))