Apparent rather than literal line count

[thatkeith]

Is there a way to find out how many wrapped lines there are in a field? Not the logical lines (return-delimited), but the way the text looks to a human when it line-wraps in a text field.
I'd like to be able to work out, programmatically, how much height a given chunk of text takes when it's in a particular font, type size and line height.

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[Klaus]

Hi Keith,

do something like this:
...
put the number of lines of THE FORMATTEDTEXT of fld "your field here"
...

Best

Klaus

[thatkeith]

That's brilliant! Thanks Klaus – I had a vague memory of there being some solution but I didn't manage to track it down in the dictionary. (I have to say I still really dislike the new-look LC dictionary. )