[Request] [Layout API] More options to organize tables

[Fredosixx]

Unless I am wrong, there seems to be nothing for basic formatting of table:

• cell margins - currently text is too close to the cell borders - workaround: create thin columns and lines and hide their borders
• cell justifying - currently, no options - just Top Left - no easy workaround
• text wrapping and cell height adjustment - currently nothing - workaround: I have to compute it myself and adjust the height of lines

A large part of the problem could be resolved if there was an extra method for FormattedText, where you could:

• Specify a bounding box and an anchor type (to justify and wrap)
• Get the actual height of the formatted text (after setting the style)

Currently:

bb = Geom::Bounds2d.new 1, 1, wid, hgt
ftext = Layout::FormattedText.new(some long text, bb)   # the text is wrapped but no way to justify it in the box
height = ftext.bounds.height    # return the SAME height as <bb> regardless of the text, not the actual height

What is requested:

bb = Geom::Bounds2d.new 1, 1, wid, hgt
ftext = Layout::FormattedText.new(some long text, bb, anchor_type)   # the text is wrapped and justified
real_height = ftext.bounds.height    # should return the actual height of the text

[thomthom]

@ackarkka - are we missing all of this?