Subj : Auto-indenting wrapped text in a frame
To   : Codefenix
From : echicken
Date : Tue Nov 28 2023 06:19 pm

  Re: Auto-indenting wrapped text in a frame
  By: Codefenix to All on Tue Nov 28 2023 11:51:05

 Co> Is there a simple way to automatically pad new lines of text with say, 6
 Co> leading whitespaces when wrapping text in a frame (i.e.: word_wrap =
 Co> true)?

No, there isn't.

 Co> What I'm trying to achieve is adding such an indent to wrapped lines of
 Co> dialog in MRC. I added a HH:MM timestamp recently, and think it would look
 Co> nicer if the next line began after where the timestamp ended in the
 Co> previous line.

You could put the text that you want to align into its own word-wrapped frame:

-frame- -frame----------------------
[HH:MM] [text that might be wrapped]

And then you probably want to use frame.data_height to determine the height after wrapping of that second frame, and use it to set the actual height of that frame, and use it to offset the y position of the next row of content, etc.

The alternative is adding an indentation option to Frame and messing around with the word wrapping logic there. Probably doable but probably a pain.
  
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