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Name

textLeading()

Examples
example pic
PFont font;
// The font must be located in the sketch's 
// "data" directory to load successfully 
font = loadFont("EurekaMonoCond-Bold-14.vlw");
// Text to display. The "\n" is a "new line" character
String lines = "LIN1\nLIN2\nLIN3"; 
textFont(font, 14); 
textLeading(10);
text(lines, 5, 25); 
fill(126);  // Set value to gray
textLeading(20);
text(lines, 36, 25);
fill(0);    // Set value to black
textLeading(30);
text(lines, 68, 25);
Description Sets the spacing between lines of text in units of pixels. This setting will be used in all subsequent calls to the text() function.
Syntax
textLeading(dist)
Parameters
dist int or float: the size in pixels for spacing between lines
Returns None
Usage Web & Application
Related loadFont()
PFont
text()
textFont()
Updated on June 14, 2010 12:05:29pm EDT

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