For my use case I need to the metrics to include whitespace characters in the of the string.
Currently does not seem to be possible, since it calls .trim() on the string before computing the results.

Is there a way to get text-metrics to include every whitespace when computing the width of a string?

With strings that are all whitespace or mostly whitespace, the width that text-metrics produces seems to be computed after stripping out whitespaces. At the least, the width results are smaller than when I just compute the width of the string using canvas.measureText. Here's an example of the mismatch:

https://codesandbox.io/s/text-metrics-whitespaces-mzgh2?file=/src/index.js

Am I just missing some CSS prop I need to pass to text-metrics to get it to understand how I want it to treat whitespaces?

I expected passing in pre or break-spaces to white-space would do this trick but it did not. Is it possible this "if block" should add whitespace to the line string before continue-ing if certain white-space values are present?

Also, I did see this issue but could not find the trim() culprit that was mentioned. The trim in normalizeWhitespace looks like it doesn't trim if white-space: pre is used, so I would think that should be fine.

I think it could be cool to split a word by length when it's too long. The idea will be to split a long word each part should have given maximum number of characters.

For example if we use lines method on a string like this Craspharetrapharetragravida.Vivamusconsequatlacusvelposuerecongue.Duisaloremvitaeexauctorscelerisquenoneuturpis.Utimperdietmagnasitametjustobibendumvehicula..

Actually it returns the same string, with the option wordwrap it should return something like the example just below.

[
        'Craspharetraphar-',
        'retragravida.Vivam-',
        'musconsequatlac-',
        'cusvelposuerecon-',
        'ngue.Duisaloremv-',
        'vitaeexauctorscel-',
        'lerisquenoneutur-',
        'rpis.Utimperdietma-',
        'agnasitametjustob-',
        'bibendumvehicul-',
        'la.'
]

import textMetrics from 'text-metrics';

console.log('textMetrics', textMetrics);

logs undefined.

Hello,
I'd like to know if you know/considered calculating the baseline height of a text.
My use case would be to align the baseline (of each line?) to other elements in a design tool.

This library is already useful for calculating height and width so thanks already!

Hey,

Thanks for the lib, really helpful.
Seems like there is a small bug with the conversion from pts to inch.
Current implementation:

return value / (96 / 72);

Should be:

return value * (96 / 72);

https://github.com/bezoerb/text-metrics/releases/tag/v2.0.4

Package is invalid because the dist folder is missing. 2.0.3 works fine, so seems to be introduced with the CI changes.