roeville
29th September 2008, 23:38
I'll be writing a script to output a .sub or .srt file containing text that needs to be displayed as a table - that is in columns.
The vertical alignment of charaters in therefore important, and each "cell" may be of different character length, so multiple consecutive spaces must be allowed as these will be used to pad to the next "cell". Also a monospaced font would have to be used. The text would also have to be left justified (not centered).
First question - is it possible to create subtitles like this using .sub or .srt files?
Which of the many available tools should I be using to create the subtites?
I believe some textual subtitle file types allow you to specify a font (e.g. "Courier New" I suppose). And some tools which create the subtitle bitmaps allow you to specify a font or the justification - but not all allow you to do both.
I guess that my requirements will narrow down the number of tools I can use - can anyone suggest a suitable subtitle file format and tool to do the above?
The vertical alignment of charaters in therefore important, and each "cell" may be of different character length, so multiple consecutive spaces must be allowed as these will be used to pad to the next "cell". Also a monospaced font would have to be used. The text would also have to be left justified (not centered).
First question - is it possible to create subtitles like this using .sub or .srt files?
Which of the many available tools should I be using to create the subtites?
I believe some textual subtitle file types allow you to specify a font (e.g. "Courier New" I suppose). And some tools which create the subtitle bitmaps allow you to specify a font or the justification - but not all allow you to do both.
I guess that my requirements will narrow down the number of tools I can use - can anyone suggest a suitable subtitle file format and tool to do the above?