Hypertext

[karai17]

How are we going to pull off hypertext? The ability to use multiple colours, fonts, throw in some emoji, etc in a single line or paragraph of text is probably going to be important, especially for online games with chat boxes.

[shakesoda]

that makes it totally useless for the chat box case.

[karai17]

I think the most obvious route would be to create an inline container for a bunch of data. Would that be ideal, though?

{ "inline",
    { "text", "This is a chat message and it contains an ", class="white" },
    { "text", "Item Link", class={ "common_item", "item_link" } },
    { "text", ".", class="white" }
}

[karai17]

End user hypertext is also important, as brought up in IRC.

> Hello, my name is {red}Karai{red} and I am totally {b}{i}AWESOME{i}{b}!     [ Send ]

[karai17]

Some end user codes could be as follows:

{red}, {green}, {blue}, {cyan}, {pink}, {yellow}, {purple}, etc -- named color codes
{#12345678}, { 255, 255, 255, 255 } -- hex/dec color codes
{b}, {i}, {s} -- formatting codes such as bold, italics, strike through.
{url} -- external websites

[adrix89]

Aren't there libraries for that? Also why can't you support it by default for all text?

[karai17]

I do want to support all text, that is why I opened this issue... If you have an idea that will help, feel free to comment.

[pablomayobre]

Richtext Popo text.lua

[Bobbyjoness]

Emojis should be added lol. If emojis are added I think it should be done the same way android and iphone does them. For example on PC a train emoji is just typing out the :train: short code.

[Bobbyjoness]

Oops the train short code is : train :

[Bobbyjoness]

But with out spaces

[karai17]

Emoji are a unicode standard so if DOMy ever does support them, it would use the standard unicode glyphs.

[Bobbyjoness]

Does Unicode standards have all the ones from my android keyboard?

[karai17]

Google's emoji specifically use the unicode standards, yes.

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Landon Manning lmanning17@gmail.com

On 2 May 2015 at 10:55, Bobbyjoness notifications@github.com wrote:

Does Unicode standards have all the ones from my android keyboard?

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[shakesoda]

Emoji totally depends on Love getting font fallbacks or you using a font that has the glyphs, it'll just work if you have a font that can do it.

[karai17]

While native emoji will work, rendering cute graphics instead of glyphs would be much more difficult.

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On 2 May 2015 at 11:30, Colby Klein notifications@github.com wrote:

Emoji totally depends on Love getting font fallbacks or you using a font that has the glyphs, it'll just work if you have a font that can do it.

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[s-ol]

I wouldn't define a hypertext markup language, your Lua syntax is one already. An inline block is fine, end-user end points are wrong IMO, their use is very very application specific and might cause security risks and inconvenience in some applicstions. Also there is no reason to introduce a new layer.

Your new syntax is essentially a markup language that could be compiled into regular DOMy. That could be a seperate, optional and very configurable library or module.