[AccessD] Coordinating use of space on report

Hi.  I would appreciate any bright ideas on a very specific requirement.

On a report, I have a strictly limited width for some data.  This data 
is in 2 fields.  The data in the left field will be left aligned, and 
the data in the right field can be right aligned.  It's the name of a 
sports team, and their score in a competition.

The number of characters in the score can vary quite a bit.  It could be 
like any of these:
2
234/9
25 (WBC)
LBD

In some cases, the name of the team will need to be truncated in order 
to fit.  That's ok.  Growing the control height is not possible.

But I don't want to have to make the right-hand control wide enough to 
cater to the widest possible score data.  This would mean reducing the 
amount of space available for the team name, which in most practical 
cases would restrict it much more than necessary. In other words, I 
don't want to make *all* the team names narrow enough so that a score of 
25(WBC) could be fitted in, when in most cases the score will be more 
like 2 allowing a wider team name and possibly preventing truncating. 
Hope that makes sense.

I have played with the idea of using fixed width font, and concatenating 
the team and score into one control, with the requisitre number of 
spaces in between to justify the text.  2 problems with this:  Fixed 
width fonts generally take up more space anyway, for the same amount of 
text.  And this report is output to PDF and for internet download, so 
many users who will be trying to print it will not have that font installed.

So... what would you try?

Regards
Steve