Drop Cap character text display (text size)

@Bert

Sep '20

I am trying to display some text using a drop cap character (first character being bigger than the rest of the text).

My initial idea was to build this up as follows (pseudo code):

VStack { HStack { DropCapCharacter() FirstFewLinesOfText() } RestOfText() }

This is what I have now... https://pasteboard.co/JpuY3d3.png

If I want to do it this way I would need to be able to calculate how much text would go into the area right of the dropcap character. As far as I can see I need to know how much space I have available (I can do that I think) but I would also need to know how much text I can fit in that area. Does anybody know how I can calculate the amount of characters that would fit in an arbitrary textbox?

Much appreciated.

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