Support multi-line text rolling in a rect

[Daniel-Chin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This feature would enhance UI capabilities.

Describe the solution you'd like An interface such as Screen.print_rolled_text_at(text: str, x: int, y: int, w: int, h: int, do_clip: bool)

Describe alternatives you've considered I implemented my own text rolling util. Feel free to copy. It even considers CJK char width...

Additional context Text rolling is infamously non-trivial, so I'd like an in-library implementation. Pain points:

• CJK char width.
• Right-to-left languages.
• When to insert hyphen automatically.
• A "greedy" approach results in ugly results. Sometimes, to aesthetically distribute multi-line text requires jointly optimizing the content of each line, inherently an O(n^n) problem. (I don't have reference for this but I remember seeing a YouTube video on this topic...)

[peterbrittain]

Thanks for getting in touch. Can you explain your thinking a lttile more?

In particular, how are you trying to use this function and have you tried any of the options already available in asciimatics:

• Textbox with wrapped text
• The underlying code used for the wrapping (widgets.utilities._enforce_width)

I think that they cover your existing rollText implementation...

[Daniel-Chin]

Thank you for paying attention!

With the help of your reference, I see that widgets.utilities._split_text() perfectly implements my request. Good work, and thanks greatly for making this library available!

[peterbrittain]

Great! And thanks!!