I have old iOS attributed strong code that explicitly handles superscripting specific characters in an NS attributed string from the baseline by a % of the character height or by a fixed pixel amount.
Let me know if you want it. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Alastair Houghton > <alast...@alastairs-place.net> wrote: > >> On 28 Nov 2016, at 16:18, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerri...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 28 Nov 2016, at 22:13, Eric E. Dolecki <edole...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You could probably use an attributed string and add an attribute for the >>> last colon: NSBaselineOffsetAttributeName >> >> Yes; but this would be some rather desperate work-around. >> >> I was rather thinking of UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute with some >> Feature type from SFNTLayoutTypes.h (in CoreText). >> I tried a few types, but no success so far. > > The problem you’ve got is that unless the font has a feature that > specifically allows you to change *any* colon (as opposed to a colon between > two numerals), you aren’t going to be able to do it by turning on an OpenType > feature. Even if you can, there doesn’t appear to be a standard feature code > for this, so you’d be reliant on Apple not changing it in the future. > > What you *could* do instead is get Core Text (or Cocoa Text) to lay out a > string e.g. "12:00”, then grab the glyph for the centred colon directly from > that string and use it explicitly, e.g. by attaching a > kCTGlyphInfoAttributeName attribute to your string with the value set to an > appropriately constructed CTGlyphInfoRef. > > Kind regards, > > Alastair. > > -- > http://alastairs-place.net > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
