Howto fit text into a box

[Uwe Koloska <ml@koloro.de>]

Hello,

for a CD-Cover I have to fit a given text into a fixed box. I have tried to 
achieve this with the help of mag-0010 "Good looking shapes" but was not 
successful :-(

Can you help me with this?

The conditions:
  - the text is of fixed length
  - the area is of given size (has a given ratio)
  - the text has to fit completely inside this area
  - the last line must be justified, too
  - the fontsize of the text is the variable that can be changed
  - I have the current minimal context installation

and as an addition:
  - if possible the words should not be hyphenated at all or hyphenated
    at an arbitrary character without a hyphenation mark (the text
    consists of names)

A possible algorithm (similar to the one from mag-0010)
  1 start with a small box with the given ratio
  2 fill the text into the box
  3 if all text fits in with a small penalty we are ready
  4 make the box a bit larger
  5 goto 2

Unfortunately, I'm not able to understand the code from the mag nor can I code 
the algorithm in context ...

I would appreciate any input on this problem!

Thank you
Uwe Koloska
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