Question: About positioning of text

[martijnzoet]

First of all, let me say that finding this plugin for visual studio made my day.

Second, I have a question. We have some maps where we use quite long text to describe elements. For example: “word1 word2 word3 word4 word 5.“ In the current situation this words are all aligned and put underneath each other. We can fix this by doing “word1_word2_word3 word4_word5” which creates two lines with first line containing 3 words (1, 2 and 3) and the second line 2 words (4 and 5).

e.g. : component word1_word2_word3 word4_word5[0.88, 0.03] label [70, -6]
Which isn’t preferred because of the underlines. Normally I would build the string with an invisible space, for example: “U+0020” but in the plugin translates this as part of the string.

My question: is there a way to fix this without getting into the code of plugin?

[damonsk]

Hi @martijnzoet

Sadly not, it's limited by this code : https://github.com/damonsk/onlinewardleymaps/blob/1e2ebc5ca653525953880e395fbc00cb354000a6/frontend/src/components/symbols/ComponentTextSymbol.js#L4

I'm currently working on improving component names (&editing) in damonsk/onlinewardleymaps#171 - I will see if I can improve the displaying of long names, or maybe introduce the \n char allowing users to control when to break onto a new line.

[martijnzoet]

@damonsk

Thank you for your quick response. That improvement would be very welcome. For now I will take deep-dive in the code and see if I can change something to match our requirements.

[StephanEggermont]

That code in ComponentTextSymbol does not remove invisible spaces, and should actually work fine with them. I assume they are filtered on the input side?