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I kinda recall someone talking about how in a text block, you can ask it to prefer to be laid out with all lines having an equal-ish words on each line in case the text goes over to second line. So something like
```This is some long text where
it gets cut off somewhere```
Instead of
```This is some long text where it gets cut off
somewhere```
But I really can’t find something here, am I imagining it perhaps :thinking_face:

Maybe it were you 10 months ago? :sweat_smile:
<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1661331116936149>

Aha I think on `TextStyle` I see a parameter called `LineBreak` which can be configured to have a pre-defined “Heading” style, which I think more or less does what I want. Found <https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:compose/ui/ui-text/src/androidMain/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/style/LineBreak.android.kt;l=112-134?q=androidx.compose.ui.text.style.LineBreak|here>. I will go with it and see how it works

Damn I can’t believe I didn’t remember or even just find the question that I myself asked here :face_with_spiral_eyes:
It does kinda explain though how I sort of found my way around to the correct API, I think it was in a place in my brain, hidden very well.
Thanks a lot, and I need to check if something is wrong with my memory after this, I don’t know how I will recover from such a blow :joy:

:point_up::skin-tone-2: me after every time I forget an actor’s name

Copying from whats new in compose march 2023 blog post:

Configure line breaking behavior using TextStyle.lineBreak. Use built-in semantic configurations like Heading, Paragraph, or Simple, or construct your own LineBreak configuration with the desired Strategy, Strictness, and WordBreak values.

Add hyphenation support using TextStyle.hyphens.

<https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-march-23-release.html?m=1|https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-march-23-relea>
<https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-jetpack-compose-march-23-release.html?m=1|se.html?m=1>

Yep thanks for the link! So far with the things I was testing, Heading is what I wanted in this use case, so nice to have these sane defaults to pick from before having to play with the individual parameters ourselves. Super nice API I love it, great job on it!