LaTeX support ;-) On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:18 PM, René Dudfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> awesome :) > > > yeah, maybe some text layout code would be a useful addition to > pygame.font ? Or even as a separate download. > > > > Shall we start by making an ultimate list of features, or use cases... > > - aligning text, left, right, center etc. > - vertical alignment... top, bottom, center. > - justify text. > - breaking words (word-break), so it can add a long word like > "complexifcation" as "complexif-\ncation" > - splitting text up into 'pages', > - different sized pages or Rects could be useful too. > - scrolling text. > - selecting text. Based on mouse click, which letter and word does it > collide with? > - each part of text having a separate font/attributes. So you can > then do words with bold, italics etc. > - letter spacing > - line spacing > - word spacing > - flowing around areas... > - eg( place an image, and the text flows around it) > - example here: http://www.csstextwrap.com/example_for_demo.php > - indenting > - padding around text. > - text color > - text render method. > > > > Anything else? > > > > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Charlie Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I'll happily chip in my word-wrap code, if you want it as a starting > > point for pygame. It's not beautiful, but it does have a very nice > > property: > > > > orig_string[x] -> "".join(wrapped_string)[x] > > > > They're not always equal, because it converts some spaces to a > > zero-width character for alignment purposes. (The char was originally > > \x00, hence strip_to_null, but that caused issues elsewhere, > > presumably with C strings.) > > > > > http://code.google.com/p/endgame-singularity/source/browse/trunk/code/graphics/text.py?r=892 > > > > -FM > > > > On 9/17/08, pymike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeah pygame.font needs support for \n. :P > >> > >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Charlie Nolan > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> > >>> Hmm, I've written this too. Given that it seems pretty common, > >>> wouldn't this be a good candidate for adding to pygame.font.Font? > >>> > >>> -FM > >>> > >>> On 9/16/08, Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:11:45PM +1000, René Dudfield wrote: > >>> >> The cookbook has this entry, but it doesn't work with new lines. > >>> >> http://www.pygame.org/wiki/TextWrapping > >>> >> > >>> >> Anyone have any code like this that supports new lines? > >>> > > >>> > > http://mg.pov.lt/pyspacewar/trac/browser/trunk/src/pyspacewar/ui.py#L466 > >>> > > >>> > Output example: > http://mg.pov.lt/pyspacewar/pyspacewar-help-screen.png > >>> > > >>> > It's GPL-ed, feel free to use or ask me for a licence change if > that's > >>> > not suitable. > >>> > > >>> > Marius Gedminas > >>> > -- > >>> > If you are smart enough to know that you're not smart enough to be an > >>> > Engineer, then you're in Business. > >>> > > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> - pymike (http://pymike.4rensics.org/) > >> > > >
