kill off public access to text_options, it makes me a sad panda about prawn HOT 6 CLOSED

Remove Prawn::Document#text_options feature, as it has made me a very sad panda many times. (closed by 9ce5b87)

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OK, I didn't see this coming. Is there a replacement for this functionality? Also the documentation at http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/docs/prawn-core/classes/Prawn/Document/Text.html still lists this as a valid public method.

Later...
Richard

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As the giant warning message upon installing Prawn 0.5.0.1 states, it's a pre-release. Therefore the documentation is still based on the official stable release of Prawn (0.4)

There will be no general replacement, though I will add API calls for most of what people will need:

Things like: Document#wrap_mode= and Document#spacing=

But those will only spring into existence when I properly code up Prawn's low level functions to account for them. Right now they don't, and that's why text_options is dangerous.

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Incase you don't use the gems:

" Welcome to Prawn, the best pure-Ruby PDF solution ever!
This is version 0.5 RC1

Please note that you have downloaded a pre-release candidate gem,
which has some bugs, ugly spots, other bad things in it. This gem is also
not fully backwards compatible, and may break existing code.

If you wish to revert until a stable release is ready, uninstall prawn 0.5.0,
prawn-core 0.5.0, prawn-layout 0.2.0 and prawn-format 0.2.0

For details on what has changed, see:
http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/notes/0.5

If you have questions, contact us at:
http://groups.google.com/group/prawn-ruby

To submit a patch or report a bug:
http://github.com/sandal/prawn

Prawn is meant for experienced Ruby hackers, so if you are new to Ruby, you
might want to wait until you've had some practice with the language before
expecting Prawn to work for you. Things may change after 1.0, but for now
if you're not ready to read source code and patch bugs or missing features
yourself (with our help), Prawn might not be the right fit.

But if you know what you're getting yourself into, enjoy!
"

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Yup, I don't use the Gems so I completely missed this message. Thanks for bringing me up to speed. :)

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Yeah, sorry... I had merged in to stable branch early because I anticipated 0.5.1 to come much earlier. Generally, if you track stable moving forward you won't be burned by pre-releases.

For now, lock to a 0.4 tag until you hear about an official 0.5.1 release if the turbulence is causing problems.

FWIW, with regards to text_options() you should have a suitable replacement for all the functionality it offers by Prawn 0.6, no guarantees about 0.5 though.

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