Ruby on Rails

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Ben Edwards <login@funkytwig.com> wrote:
> I want to use this to put truncate stuff and put ... If a text string in too
> long.
>
> I can work out how to do this in thery, with an array of chars and relative
> widths (for a specific font, in my case Helvitica) but can find details fo
> the widths anywhare. Any ideas?

Yes: forget it.

The web is not print. You may specify 12pt Helvetica but what the
end user sees may be something else -- a different font, a different
size, different kerning, different line height, different word-spacing...

That's aside from the question of "too long" for what? To fit in a
container that's probably variable in size as well?

Seems unlikely to be time well spent :-)

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