processing/p5.js

Support 'justified' alignment as an option for textAlign

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#3,354 opened on Dec 3, 2018

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Area:TypographyEnhancementHelp Wantedp5.js 2.0+

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Description

Support 'JUSTIFIED' alignment as an option for textAlign(), so that we can have text that looks like below. Note: we would need to check that the optional 'width' param was specified to text() when using this alignment. If I remember correctly there is an nice dynamic programming solution to this problem.

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Inspect the current implementation of textAlign() and text() in p5.js. Understand how text alignment affects rendering. Then research dynamic programming approaches for justified text alignment and implement the new option, ensuring it works only when width is specified.
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javascript
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