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With the base Pango interfaces, you could create a <A HREF="pango-text-attributes.html#PANGOATTRLIST" >PangoAttrList</A > and apply it to the text; the problem is that you'd need to apply attributes to some numeric range of characters, for example "characters 12-17." This is broken from an internationalization standpoint; once the text is translated, the word you wanted to italicize could be in a different position.</P ><P >The solution is to include the text attributes in the string to be translated. Pango provides this feature with a small markup language. You can parse a marked-up string into the string text plus a <A HREF="pango-text-attributes.html#PANGOATTRLIST" >PangoAttrList</A > using the function <A HREF="pango-text-attributes.html#PANGO-PARSE-MARKUP" >pango_parse_markup()</A >.</P ><P >A simple example of a marked-up string might be: <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >"<span foreground="blue" size="100">Blue text</span> is <i>cool</i>!"</TT ></P ><P >The root tag of a marked-up document is <markup>, but <A HREF="pango-text-attributes.html#PANGO-PARSE-MARKUP" >pango_parse_markup()</A > allows you to omit this tag, so you will most likely never need to use it. The most general markup tag is <span>, then there are some convenience tags. <span> has the following attributes: <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><P ><B ><span> attributes</B ></P ><DL ><DT >font_desc</DT ><DD ><P >A font description string, such as "Sans Italic 12"; note that any other span attributes will override this description. So if you have "Sans Italic" and also a style="normal" attribute, you will get Sans normal, not italic.</P ></DD ><DT >font_family</DT ><DD ><P >A font family name</P ></DD ><DT >face</DT ><DD ><P >Synonym for font_family</P ></DD ><DT >size</DT ><DD ><P >Font size in 1000ths of a point, one of the absolute sizes 'xx-small', 'x-small', 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'x-large', 'xx-large', or one of the relative sizes 'smaller' or 'larger'.</P ></DD ><DT >style</DT ><DD ><P >One of 'normal', 'oblique', 'italic'</P ></DD ><DT >weight</DT ><DD ><P >One of 'ultralight', 'light', 'normal', 'bold', 'ultrabold', 'heavy', or a numeric weight</P ></DD ><DT >variant</DT ><DD ><P >'normal' or 'smallcaps'</P ></DD ><DT >stretch</DT ><DD ><P >One of 'ultracondensed', 'extracondensed', 'condensed', 'semicondensed', 'normal', 'semiexpanded', 'expanded', 'extraexpanded', 'ultraexpanded'</P ></DD ><DT >foreground</DT ><DD ><P >An RGB color specification such as '#00FF00' or a color name such as 'red'</P ></DD ><DT >background</DT ><DD ><P >An RGB color specification such as '#00FF00' or a color name such as 'red'</P ></DD ><DT >underline</DT ><DD ><P >One of 'single', 'double', 'low', 'none'</P ></DD ><DT >rise</DT ><DD ><P >Vertical displacement, in 10000ths of an em. Can be negative for subscript, positive for superscript.</P ></DD ><DT >strikethrough</DT ><DD ><P >'true' or 'false' whether to strike through the text</P ></DD ><DT >lang</DT ><DD ><P >A language code, indicating the text language</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ><P >The following convenience tags are provided: <P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><P ><B >Convenience tags</B ></P ><DL ><DT >b</DT ><DD ><P >Bold</P ></DD ><DT >big</DT ><DD ><P >Makes font relatively larger, equivalent to <span size="larger"></P ></DD ><DT >i</DT ><DD ><P >Italic</P ></DD ><DT >s</DT ><DD ><P >Strikethrough</P ></DD ><DT >sub</DT ><DD ><P >Subscript</P ></DD ><DT >sup</DT ><DD ><P >Superscript</P ></DD ><DT >small</DT ><DD ><P >Makes font relatively smaller, equivalent to <span size="smaller"></P ></DD ><DT >tt</DT ><DD ><P >Monospace font</P ></DD ><DT >u</DT ><DD ><P >Underline</P ></DD ></DL ></DIV > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><BR CLEAR="all"><BR><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="left" ><A HREF="pango-tab-stops.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><<< Previous Page</B ></FONT ></A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#0000C0" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><A HREF="index.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Home</B ></FONT ></A ></B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#00C000" ALIGN="center" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B ><A HREF="pango.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Up</B ></FONT ></A ></B ></FONT ></TD ><TD WIDTH="25%" BGCOLOR="#C00000" ALIGN="right" ><A HREF="pango-layout-objects.html" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Next Page >>></B ></FONT ></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="left" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Tab Stops</B ></FONT ></TD ><TD COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="right" ><FONT COLOR="#FFFFFF" SIZE="3" ><B >Layout Objects</B ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
