Text in one of a game's fonts, laid out as GameMaker's draw_text lays it out, as draw list items naming {:glyph, font, character} pictures (Cauldron2D.GameMaker.Pictures.table/2).

items = Cauldron2D.GameMaker.Text.items(data, "fMenu", "PRESS START", {160, 150},
  halign: :center, colour: {255, 255, 255})

A # or a newline starts a new line, as in GameMaker Studio 1; \# is a #; a carriage return is dropped. Lines are as tall as the font's tallest glyph unless :separation says otherwise. Each glyph is drawn offset pixels right of the pen, which then moves by its advance and any kerning with the next character. A character the font lacks advances the pen by the width of its space and draws nothing.

Options:

• :halign — :left (the default), :center or :right of x, line by line
• :valign — :top (the default), :middle or :bottom of y, for the whole block
• :colour — {r, g, b} blended into every glyph; white by default
• :alpha — 0.0–1.0
• :mode — the blend mode, as a draw list item takes it
• :depth — the items' depth
• :scale — {x, y}, multiplying every distance and glyph
• :angle — degrees anticlockwise the whole block turns about {x, y}, as draw_text_transformed turns it
• :wrap — a width in pixels: a line wider breaks between words to fit it, as draw_text_ext does; a word wider on its own keeps a line to itself
• :separation — the distance in pixels from one line's top to the next's

width/4 and height/4 take the same options and measure what items/5 draws.