On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:53:54 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> On 29/04/2020 16:24, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > [...] > > this is not html. this is textblock markup. it is html-like but it is not > > html. > > OK, thanks. I thought it might be some other markup language. that's what the translation strings are for... :) > > ps literally maps to: > > > > https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2029/index.htm > > > > which is a unicode standard for defining a paragraph separation where > > 2 paragraphs may even be in different languages - one left to right > > and one right to left. it's not silly. > > Indeed it's not. Boustrophedon is still used, although not usually in > writing. > > > it's how the code and feature and thing works. > > textblock actually understands very few tags. you teach it with custom tag > > -> format command mappings. so literally you have: > > A bit like TeX: very little built in, but limitless in what you can compose. > > > base: "font=Sans font_size=10 align=left color=#eee"; > > tag: "br" "\n"; > > tag: "em" "+ font_style=Oblique"; > > tag: "hilight" "+ font_weight=Bold color=#3399ff"; > > tag: "link" "+ color=#607080 underline=on underline_color=#3399ff"; > > Not transformable to other formats, though, unless you have a parser > which understands the syntax above\ that was takedn from an edje edc file - so yes. there is a parser. it's actually set up by api's where you set up the base format (you can never pop it) and then a list of tag -> format commands one at a time. edje just does this for you when the object is instantiated and a style is needed the first time. > > ps is a built-in it knows about to map to the unicode paragraph separator. a > > newline ascii char is a special format command to just add a newline in. it > > doesn't understand em - you teach it with that tag mapping. a + at the start > > pushes the new formatting onto the stack "overlaying" what was already > > there. a > > - pops what was last there. so a tag: > > > > </> > > > > is literally a pop. so you can do > > > > hello <em>world</em> blah ... > > > > or shorthand: > > > > hello <em>world</> blah ... > > That's SGML. It's one of the features we removed when creating XML. either way it's something textblock just does to be convenient as it's basically how the the format system works - it's a stack of "modify this property this way" to build a "current format properties" and so it's exposed that way too as it's convenient. > > like json or c/c++ } closes the matching { so it saves you having to > > remember what tag. > > Yep, that's what is was invented for. In the days when this was all > written by hand, or punched onto cards :-) Seems so long ago now. > > > it's not silly. it's how efl actually works. it's html-like ... it's not > > html. > > I never said it was silly, I just suggested it should not be done if > this was HTML. But the OP was not informed that it wasn't HTML, so he > (and I) made an understandable mistake. he knew it wasn't html - you already said its a "proprietary addon" :) it's actually really a custom html-like string formatting system. that's it. pretty simple. :) > Documenting the documentation... > > P > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
