Re: regarding PANGO_WRAP_HYPHEN

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 13-06-06 09:55 AM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to implement PANGO_WRAP_HYPHEN, i.e. , I want to introduce a hyphen
> when while laying out the text, the line has ended, but the word has not. I
> figured that the functionality would be quite similar to PANGO_WRAP_CHAR.

May be fine doing it for PANGO_WRAP_CHAR itself, or instead, add a separate
pango_layout_set_hyphenate() and make it default to on.


> After looking at the source code, I think that I have to change
> process_item(). Through this function, I can adjust the break_width and
> break_num_chars. However, I don't know how to insert a hyphen at the end of
> the line. Could you tell me how that can be done?

The actual hyphen needs to be language-sensitive, but for an initial
implementation it should be fine doing something simpler.  What you need to do
is an awful lot like what's in ellipsize.c.  Check it out.

behdad

> Any pointers on this would be helpful.
>
>  
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
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>
> Parth Kanungo

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