About this project
Two plates side by side, both using the same font at the same glyph size, one carrying a narrow word and one a wide one. Each plate sizes itself to the lettering it actually holds. The scene demonstrates driving geometry from a solved text bounding box rather than from character count, which is why identical settings produce two different plate widths.
What to change
Narrow text and wide text set the word on each plate, up to six characters each; the defaults are III and WWW because they sit at opposite ends of the width range in most fonts. Glyph size, 6 to 22 mm, is shared by both samples, and the small numeral raised on each plate face prints its current value so the two samples stay comparable.
Tile width
With automatic width on, each tile takes the larger of the minimum width and the measured span of its own text plus one side margin at each end. Side margin, 2 to 15 mm, decides how boxed in the lettering looks. Minimum width, 30 to 80 mm, stops a short word or a small glyph size from collapsing the plate to a sliver; raise it if the narrow sample comes out looking like a tab rather than a plate.
Turn automatic width off and both plates take one fixed width, 40 to 120 mm. That is the point of the comparison: one width cannot suit both samples. Set it for the narrow word and the wide lettering runs past the plate edges; set it for the wide word and the narrow plate is mostly empty.
Readouts
The two tile widths are readouts rather than inputs. They report what the sizing rule resolved to for each sample, so the contribution of the margin and of the minimum can be seen separately.