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When working with multiline controls ctrlTextWidth or getTextWidth will not return a proper value since the text will be treated as one long line.

Solution (Execute in Eden Editor):

disableSerialization;

private _display = findDisplay 313 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty";

private _edit = _display ctrlCreate ["RscEditMulti", -1];
_edit ctrlSetPosition [0,0,1,1];
_edit ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,1];
_edit ctrlSetFont "EtelkaMonospacePro"; 
_edit ctrlSetFontHeight 0.03;
_edit ctrlCommit 0;

private _longestLineWidth = 0;
private _exampleString = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxyz0134567890";
private _text = "";

for "_lines" from 1 to 400 do // Loop through all lines and find the longest one
{
   _lineText = _exampleString select [round random 35];
   _longestLineWidth = _longestLineWidth max (_lineText getTextWidth ["EtelkaMonospacePro", 0.03]);
   _text = _text + _lineText + endl;
};

_edit ctrlSetText _text;
_edit ctrlSetPositionW (_longestLineWidth + 2 * 0.008); // Width of longest line + left and right margin set in engine
_edit ctrlCommit 1;