Re: preventing wrapping on certain words only

[Ellié Computing Open Source Program <opensource elliecomputing com>]

> From: Behdad Esfahbod
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 10:01 PM
> On 05/06/11 10:07, Ellié Computing Open Source Program wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 1. I’ve been investigating the Pango API, but could not find a way to
> > prevent
> > wrapping for specific portions of text. I saw the global wrapping option
> > WRAP_WORD / WRAP_CHAR / WRAP_WORD_CHAR using pango_layout_set_wrap ( ).
> >
> > How should I do this?
> > The idea behind this is to be sure that a text such as “(...)“ (could be
> > as
> > well “/* ... */”) does not get wrapped.
> Not quite possible right now.

> > 2. Another question, how would I add a place holder for an image so that
> > I
> > could do something like: hello <img width=50 height=10>! in logic and
> > determine where the image should be?
> > Can I obtain that from Pango or should I use something else? more
> > powerful on
> > top of it?
>
> Checkout pango/examples/cairoshape.c

I believe that using that shape technic it should be possible to first
render the 'no-wrap' section then make it a 'shape' in the normal text, not
feasible in general but for very simple texts it could work. Of course
having a no-wrap attribute would be way more practical :)

Regards
Armel