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Count word breaks in justified lines

timtribe
Hi,

I have noticed that with the text-align css property set to justify, the corresponding generated TEXT boxes obtained via the boxTracking API have the spaces stripped from the string reported by the box's .text property.

I can see why this might be (the word spaces vary their widths, so I guess need to be replaced by some other structure). But, is there, or can there be, any way to find out how many such 'spaces' there are on a line (e.g. a box property called "wordBreakCount")?

Thanks for your awesome software!
howcome
Yes, this a known limitation of the Boxtracking API. I hope it can be fixed. A workaround is to turn off justification, look for word breaks, and then turn it back on. But this is cumbersome.
timtribe
Fair enough, thanks.
mikeday
We have attempted to handle this better in the latest build, I hope that helps!
timtribe
Great news, Mike - I'll take a look. Thanks.