Open msteiger opened 9 years ago
msteiger
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9 years ago Alternatively, a more user-friendly encoding such as Markdown might make sense. It would also support italic/bold text and used directly for in-game chat. Unfortunately, color encoding isn't possible.
Related: #1817, #1826
immortius
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9 years ago We could just come up with some simple markup language. Could be as simple as:
{color:#fff}some text{color} {u}important{u}
It would have to be limited to options within a font though - so no italics or bold unless we introduce font families or similar. Or it could be extended if the text is used by a specialised widget that can handle that - like the html widget.
npetronio1
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1 year ago Hey, I would like to work on this issue. Can this please be assigned to me? Thank you!
jdrueckert
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1 year ago Hi @npetronio1 You don't need to be assigned to this issue to start working on it 😉 Just fork this repo, create some first changes, open a draft PR and mention this issue in it, then it will be automatically linked to it. Also, the earlier we see changes, the earlier we can give you feedback on whether you're heading the right direction 🤓
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Currently, only one font style is supported. I think it would be nice if parts of text could be marked as italic or bold similar to how text can be colored.
Text coloring is currently done by adding special characters. Picking up an ancient comment by @MarcinSc, I also believe now that this encoding should be done differently.
I was thinking about a class
StyledStringthat could contain such additional attributes similar to AttributedString. The renderer would read out that attributes and pick fonts / colors as needed.