How to place different styled text in one string?

[RangerMak]

For example, I want to make some part of text bold styled: This text contains bold part.

Calling pagesSet.addElement(new PLText(lorem, italicFont12)); will add string with specified font. New call of pagesSet.addElement wall add new string.

PLText don't support markups. Also there is not element what containing list of PLText.

Is it possible to solve this problem with current functional?

[phax]

Hi, that is currently not possible. I would have needed that myself already a couple of times but was always afraid of the effort :/

[RangerMak]

I think this problem can be solved by creating of renderable list what containing renderable elements.

All elements of this list should be rendered one after another. After rendering of first element we need to save its end position. This position will be start offset for next element of list. And so on. Using offset of first line in lines preparing function helps to place rendered element into proper position. Also offset of first line in lines preparing function can solve indent issue (see #9).

What do you think about this?

The problem for justify alignment. If text have justify alignment its need to check if current element of list is last? Last element aligns as usual. But i don't know how to make justify alignment of current element when we don't know length of next element.

[phax]

Well we could go for "inline elements" only, so all subclasses of AbstractPLInlineElement. Inline elements usually don't have an alignment (the alignment of PLText is somehow special), and a "list of inline elements with alignment" could be a subtask.

I don't think this would help for #9, because of the "more intelligent indentation" required for multiline bullet point values. But having this "sequence of inline elements" sure could be used as the basis for other elements. But special ligature handling etc. will be an issue, but an issue to deal with at a later point in time

[RangerMak]

By talking about #9 i mean text flowing around indent (like in Word document).

If indent element will be "inline element" (AbstractPLInlineElement) with specified size (length) then it can be placed at begin of "list of inline elements". So we can receive text flow around this element.

This solution not for bullet point lists.

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[phax]

Copying some logic over from https://github.com/ralfstuckert/pdfbox-layout might be a good starting point