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

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

Example of current state:

12:34 <codefenix> this is a long line of text which should autowrap when we get to this part of it

Desired state:

12:34 <codefenix> this is a long line of text which should autowrap when we
get to this part of it

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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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Re: Auto-indenting wrapped text in a frame
By: echicken to Codefenix on Tue Nov 28 2023 06:19 pm

ec> No, there isn't.
ec> You could put the text that you want to align into its own word-wrapped
ec> frame:

Ok, that's an interesting idea, thanks.

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