On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, at 08:24 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:
> Is it possible to insert character/glyphs in an NSTextView without
> changing the underlying NSTextStorage ?  The goal is to have some
> special characters (eg a hyphen) at specific places in the string that
> is displayed in the view. So when the data is saved, the special
> characters are not part of it.

Glyphs aren't part of the text storage. So you would create a custom
typesetter, hook it up to the layout manager of the text view you use
for on-screen drawing, and have it generate additional glyphs.

--Kyle Sluder
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