Getting different line width in same text box

[Dan Ebberts]

This is definitely a hack of sorts, and I don’t know how robust/reliable it is, but you could give it a try. You would put this expression in the source text of your text layer:


if (time < 0){
s = value.split("\r");
txt = ""
for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){
if (time > -10*(i+1)){
txt = s[i];
break;
}
}
txt;
}else
value


For the rectangle for the first line of text, you’d get the width this way:

myLine = 1;
L = thisComp.layer(“text”);
w = L.sourceRectAtTime(-10*(myLine-1)-5).width

For the second line of text you’d change the first line of the expression to:

myLine = 2;

etc.

Dan

[Evelyn Zhang]

You, sir, are a literal angel. This is exactly what I need. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH.

[Ben Katz]

Hi, I’m trying to reproduce exactly that, but its not working, can you guys please explain a little more or give an example?

Thanks
Ben

[Andrew Mcclure]

Hi Dan, thank you for this! Do you know if its possible for this to work without manually creating a line break?

[Dan Ebberts]

I’m not sure what you mean. Are you talking about box text? If so, I can’t think of anything.

Dan

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

The only way you could achieve that, that I can think of, is having code that broke the paragraph text into lines first around a certain character count. The line breaks would be different from the automatic line breaks in paragraph text, but then you could utilize Dan’s code to create the individual box widths. There are some existing threads on the subject of automatically adding line breaks at the space character around a given character count.

Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer

[Andrew Mcclure]

Hopefully this gif explains it better-

I’m trying to find a way for it to work without having to hit the enter key after each line

[Andrew Mcclure]

This could work thank you so much Kalleheikki!

[Stefano Gradaschi]

Thanks everyone for posting their suggestions. I kind of put together multiple expressions to do this trick. It works 99% of the times, there might be an odd combination of words that breaks it.I must say I am not an expert in coding so there might be dodgy bits here an there.Hope this will help anyone!;)Here is it how I did it:In the source text of the layer "text"a=comp("02.2_Subtitle Social").layer("text").text.sourceTexttxt = an = 61;outStr = "";newLine = ""splt = txt.split(" ")for (i = 0; i < splt.length; i++){ if ((newLine + " " + splt[i]).length > n){ if (outStr != "") outStr += "\r"; outStr += newLine; newLine = splt[i]; }else{ if (newLine != "") newLine += " "; newLine += splt[i]; }}if (newLine != ""){ if (outStr != "") outStr += "\r"; outStr += newLine;}outStr;if (time < 0){ s = value.split("\r"); txt = "" for (i = 0; i < s.length; i++){ if (time > -10*(i+1)){ txt = s[i]; break; } } txt;}else valuein the size of the shape rectangle "myline-1'myLine = 1;L = thisComp.layer("text");w = L.sourceRectAtTime(-10*(myLine-1)-5).widthx = L.sourceRectAtTime(-10*(myLine-2)-5).widthtemp = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[0];[w+40,80]in the size of the shape rectangle "myline-2'L = thisComp.layer("text").text.sourceText;w = L.length;temp = content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[0];[w*27-thisComp.layer("myLine-1").content("Rectangle 1").content("Rectangle Path 1").size[0]-20,80]in the opacity of the shape rectangle "myline-2'd=thisComp.layer("text").text.sourceTextif (d.length > 64 && d.length < 999 ) 100 else 0;if it’s a cow it will moo

[Kevin Tey]

Hi Stefano,
I’m getting some errors here and there. Do you have a project file for reference?
Still a noob and a project file could help my understanding greatly.

Thanks!