[ help :'( ] Strange margin appearing with text clip "caption" mode

[TGJimmy]

I'm generating text clips in a loop that I then vertically position below each other. I don't want the text to go off the screen, so I'm using the caption mode and give the text clips a fixed width and no height. Positioning is done by using the previous text clip's height and y position.

It all works great until text with a line break appears, then all of the sudden the text gets pushed down. I tried setting vertical_align to be "top", specifying the margins to be None or 0, but nothing seems to work. This is how I generate the text clips:

 for sub_key,val in value.items():


      # Generate a random RGB tuple
      rgb_tuple = (random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255))

      #find yourei
      yourei = footage_japanese_yourei.get(key,{}).get(sub_key)
      print("yourei ", yourei)
      yourei_pos = 0

      #generate text clip for defenition
      def_clip = TextClip(
        f_jpn, 
        val + yourei, 
        method = "caption", 
        size = (1600, None),
        vertical_align = "center", 
        interline = 10, 
        horizontal_align = "left", 
        font_size = 40, 
        color = font_color_1, 
        bg_color = rgb_tuple,
        margin = (0,0)
      )
        
      #add spacing
      clip_spacing = element_margin_small

      #set clip positoin
      def_clip = def_clip.with_position(
        (
          place_element(def_number,"x",element_margin_small),
          place_element(ku_and_ko_element,"y",element_margin) + total_height
        )
      )

      #update in order to correctly place next text clip
      total_height = total_height + def_clip.h + clip_spacing

      textclips_japanese_defenitions.append(def_clip)

    textclips_japanese_defenitions.append(def_number)

See line 2 in below example.

[TGJimmy]

I think I found the cause. break_text() assumes text with spaces in between words. I think since Japanese doesn't have any something breaks and the line break is added in front of the text with text = "\n".join(break_text(..)).

[OsaAjani]

Hi, yes this is a known issue see #2260 this should be fixed by pr #2357 already merged into master