Re: How to make a strikethrough font?

[Lex Trotman <elextr gmail com>]

On 11 February 2011 12:51,  <ikorot earthlink net> wrote:
> Antono,
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Antono Vasiljev <self antono info>
>>Sent: Feb 10, 2011 5:31 PM
>>To: ikorot earthlink net
>>Cc: gtk-list gnome org
>>Subject: Re: How to make a strikethrough font?
>>
>>On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 16:02 -0800, ikorot earthlink net wrote:
>>
>>> I'm kind of new to GTK+.
>>> When looking thru the documentation of stable Pango,
>>> I noticed that there is no simple function call to
>>> make a strikethrough font.
>>>
>>> Something like: pango_font_description_set_strikethrough().
>>>
>>> Is it an oversight? How do I create such a font?
>>
>>Probably you should use pango markup:
>>http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html
>
> Basically what I'm looking for is have a dialog with the checkbox.
> When the user select the checkbox the font selected will be swtched between
> strikethrough and regular.
>
> AFAICT, you are referring to pango_attr_strikethrough_new().
> But how do I go from the pango_font_description_new() to the function above?
> Or I am wrong and you refer to another function?
>

Thats correct, you will have to apply the attribute to the relevant
range of characters yourself.  Just do that instead of changing the
font.

Cheers
Lex

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