Re: How to patch the layout or some chars?
Re: How to patch the layout or some chars?
- Subject: Re: How to patch the layout or some chars?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:31:56 -0800
In the cocoa text system, is it possible to have a whole word (some
specific character sequence) to be displayed as one glyph? More
precisely, i have a text storage that contains the word '\alpha', and I
would like to see its text view display the alpha character on screen.
I think in theory you might possibly be able to replace the glyph
generation mechanism that Cocoa uses, but if you can do that (which I'm
not sure of), I imagine it would be really, really hairy. Come to think
of it, you might be able to do this my plugging into the "ligature"
support in Cocoa, which handles exactly this sort of behavior ("ffi"
turning into the ffi ligature character, etc.). I don't know if that's
extensible or not, though, and you'd still have weird usability issues
if your textview is editable. If they're possible, these options are
probably documented in the doc for the Cocoa text system.
However, the typical way to achieve what you're trying to do would be
to search for "\alpha" and replace it with the Unicode character you
want prior to displaying the content to the user. Unless there's really
a problem with doing it on the pipe in, I'd recommend that as being much
easier and requiring you to read a lot less doc. :->
Ben Haller
Stick Software
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