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authorMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2011-09-05 10:11:28 -0400
committerMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2011-09-05 10:12:07 -0400
commita1f4357d98d072761fe085197de53e01da46f2fc (patch)
tree43a3290a54a8a9669e47989089885ae0deead588 /docs
parent3641b7abc78bc4ba85031e2ad9bb3ce99077098e (diff)
downloadpango-a1f4357d98d072761fe085197de53e01da46f2fc.tar.gz
Mention GMarkup and character entities
As requested in bug 403499.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/pango_markup.sgml12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/pango_markup.sgml b/docs/pango_markup.sgml
index 0460ccbe..68d2901b 100644
--- a/docs/pango_markup.sgml
+++ b/docs/pango_markup.sgml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ position.
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
-<link linkend="PangoAttrList">PangoAttrList</link> using the function
+<link linkend="PangoAttrList">PangoAttrList</link> using the function
<link linkend="pango-parse-markup">pango_parse_markup()</link>.
</para>
@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ A simple example of a marked-up string might be:
</para>
<para>
+Pango uses #GMarkup to parse this language, which means that XML features
+such as numeric character entities such as &amp;#169; for &#169; can
+be used too.
+</para>
+
+<para>
The root tag of a marked-up document is &lt;markup&gt;, but <link
linkend="pango-parse-markup">pango_parse_markup()</link> allows you to
omit this tag, so you will most likely never need to use it. The most
@@ -50,8 +56,8 @@ tags. &lt;span&gt; has the following attributes:
<term>font<footnote id='since_1_21'><para>Since 1.21</para></footnote></term>
<term>font_desc</term>
<listitem><para>
-A font description string, such as "Sans Italic 12". See
-<link linkend="pango-font-description-from-string">pango_font_description_from_string()</link>
+A font description string, such as "Sans Italic 12". See
+<link linkend="pango-font-description-from-string">pango_font_description_from_string()</link>
for a description of the format of the string representation . 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,