Re: Text layout in a GtkLabel

["Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror gmail com>]

What is the difference between "character formatting" and "layout
formatting" here?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ian Puleston
<ian underpressuredivers com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Milosz Derezynski [mailto:internalerror gmail com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:24 PM
>>
>> You can use gtk_label_set_markup() and set the internal Layout of the
>> Label using Pango markup, or use gtk_label_get_layout() (it's safe to
>> call this function without realizing the widget first); that way
>> actually have the Label's/a PangoLayout and can modify it as you were
>> used to. There's also gtk_label_get/set_attributes() by which you
>> don't need to get the actual Layout but that runs down to the same
>> thing.
>
> Thanks, I'll look into using gtk_label_get_layout().
>
> But on the suggestion to use gtk_label_set_markup, that's actually what I meant below when I said "with Pango meta formatting" (sorry, was working on something else and got the terminology confused, I meant markup formatting). From what I see of the Pango Markup language it doesn't seem to provide for formatting the layout, just for character formatting, or am I missing something?
>
> Ian
>
>> 2008/10/30 Ian Puleston <ian underpressuredivers com>:
>
>> > The GtkLabel supports setting a Pango attributes list or text with
>> Pango
>> > meta formatting, but that is all character formatting. I think I
>> could
>> > achieve what I want using a Pango layout, but I can't see any way to
>> use
>> > that with a GtkLabel.
>
>
>



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