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kmac / mindfulnotifier

A simple mindfulness-based timer which displays a notification/reminder at user-defined intervals
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quirky cosmetic issue: italicized emoji #49

Open wolftune opened 2 years ago

wolftune commented 2 years ago

I added emoji to some of my reminders. I just saw for the first time that they get italicized in full display. The slanted italicized :lotusposition: image is odd. Not sure if there's anything to do about it. Potentially offer font choices or don't use italics, or maybe there's a way to not apply italics to emoji (incidentally, `:lotusposition:` doesn't render as italicized here in GitHub).

Not a priority issue, just noting it. It's quirky, not strictly desired.

wolftune commented 2 years ago

Noticed this is related to https://github.com/kmac/mindfulnotifier/issues/23

kmac commented 2 years ago

Looking at using https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_markdown to allow markdown formatting. I'm not sure at the moment what that would mean for the notification text. Needs investigation.

wolftune commented 2 years ago

To be clear, this particular quirk only shows up in the large display in the app. Notifications that I see have no italics.

On a side-note: I don't mind the italics as default. I don't know if anyone has explored the question of using Markdown in such a way where italics are the default and the italics markup results in non-italics, as in https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/106106/how-to-italicize-a-word-in-an-italic-context

And I found cases where people really like italicized emoji. An italic face emoji that leans has a different implication. But italicized lotus position emoji is weird.

Maybe if MN can somehow use an italicized font by default, that wouldn't slant the emoji.

I feel silly, this quirky thing doesn't seem to deserve this level of attention. 😛