buttons? (the kind you pin on your shirt)

[hymie!]

Greetings.

Does anybody happen to know about a package that will make a button,
the kind you would put into a Badg-a-Minit press and then pin to your
shirt?

I have a basic "blank" that will print four of them using tikz, but
it only allows one line of text, I have to size the text myself,
and I'm not going to pretend that I know what I'm doing.

My ideal goal would be "take this blob of text, format it as large as
you can to fit inside a circle with radius x inches" (in my case, x=0.95
but I may have some smaller ones too somewere) ... but I have a feeling
I'm asking for way too much.

I think I saw something like this (text formatted in a circle), but if
I recall correctly, it was a lot of text, small font size in a big circle,
and manually sized to meet the required widths.

Anyway, if anybody has ideas or pointers, I'm all eyes.

Thanks.

--hymie! https://nasalinux.net/~hymie ***@nasalinux.net

[Greg Vilardi]

Post by hymie!
Greetings.
Does anybody happen to know about a package that will make a button,
the kind you would put into a Badg-a-Minit press and then pin to your
shirt?
I have a basic "blank" that will print four of them using tikz, but
it only allows one line of text, I have to size the text myself,
and I'm not going to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
My ideal goal would be "take this blob of text, format it as large as
you can to fit inside a circle with radius x inches" (in my case, x=0.95
but I may have some smaller ones too somewere) ... but I have a feeling
I'm asking for way too much.
I think I saw something like this (text formatted in a circle), but if
I recall correctly, it was a lot of text, small font size in a big circle,
and manually sized to meet the required widths.
Anyway, if anybody has ideas or pointers, I'm all eyes.
Thanks.

If memory serves, DEK has an example of this in the TeXbook. for one fixed font
size. The example defined a circular \parshape if I recall correctly, and then
TeX does the rest. I don't recall anything about varying the font size in
there, but the paragraph shape at least reduuces the compllexity of the
problem a bit.

-Greg

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

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Post by hymie!
Greetings.
Does anybody happen to know about a package that will make a button,
the kind you would put into a Badg-a-Minit press and then pin to your
shirt?

Probably more a job for a graphics design package than for TeX. For
example Windows Paint, xfig or the like.

[hymie!]

Just for posterity ...

I didn't come up with a method to do it automatically, but this method
will work with trial-and-error

The "printme" variable will turn on a smaller circle that approximates
where the text needs to fit ... that can be turned off when you actually
print it out.

\usepackage{tikz}

%\def\printme{1}

\newcommand{\makebutton}[4]{
\node[draw,circle,minimum size=3.0in,inner sep=0pt]
at (#1,#2) {\textit { \textbf {
\fontsize{#3}{#3}\selectfont
#4
}}};
\ifdefined\printme
\else
\draw (#1,#2) circle(1.125in) ;
\fi
}

\makebutton{0}{0}{30}
{\begin{tabular}{c}Please\\don\kern-0.10em 't ask me\\about NASA\\today\end{tabular}}


--hymie! https://nasalinux.net/~hymie ***@nasalinux.net

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Post by hymie!
Greetings.
Does anybody happen to know about a package that will make a button,
the kind you would put into a Badg-a-Minit press and then pin to your
shirt?
I have a basic "blank" that will print four of them using tikz, but
it only allows one line of text, I have to size the text myself,
and I'm not going to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
My ideal goal would be "take this blob of text, format it as large as
you can to fit inside a circle with radius x inches" (in my case, x=0.95
but I may have some smaller ones too somewere) ... but I have a feeling
I'm asking for way too much.
I think I saw something like this (text formatted in a circle), but if
I recall correctly, it was a lot of text, small font size in a big circle,
and manually sized to meet the required widths.
Anyway, if anybody has ideas or pointers, I'm all eyes.