Re: Drawing an auto-hyphenated NSAttributedString?

FROM : Ricky Sharp
DATE : Mon Dec 31 19:28:58 2007

On Dec 31, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> I searched the archives but didn't see anything.
>
> I have an NSAttributedString (actually an NSTextStorage). Currently 
> it draws unhyphenated, but I'd like it to be drawn hyphenated. How 
> do I do that? The only attribute I see for that is a "document 
> attribute" which appears to be immutable, and I really don't want to 
> have to write my own drawing method that uses a custom typesetter 
> unless there is no other way.



See NSLayoutManager's setHyphenationFactor: (or the same API in 
NSParagraphStyle if hyphenation needs to be controller per paragraph).

BTW, a Google search of "hyphenation NSTextStorage" brought up the 
layout manager ref as a first hit.

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