cairo: Render visible space differently

Instead of a [SPC] hex box, just render a
centered dot, as is commonly used to indicate
space. Also render synthetic glyphs for tabs
and newlines.

This makes single-paragraph mode prettier.

1 files changed, 77 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pango/pangocairo-render.c b/pango/pangocairo-render.c
index 01d6c2ab..f4c57a87 100644
--- a/pango/pangocairo-render.c
+++ b/pango/pangocairo-render.c
@@ -394,6 +394,82 @@ _pango_cairo_renderer_draw_unknown_glyph (PangoCairoRenderer *crenderer,
       rows = hbi->rows;
       cols = 1;
     }
+  else if (ch == 0x2423 ||
+           g_unichar_type (ch) == G_UNICODE_SPACE_SEPARATOR)
+    {
+      /* We never want to show a hex box or other drawing for
+       * space. If we want space to be visible, we replace 0x20
+       * by 0x2423 (visible space).
+       *
+       * Since we don't want to rely on glyph availability,
+       * we render a centered dot ourselves.
+       */
+      double x = cx + 0.5 *((double)gi->geometry.width / PANGO_SCALE);
+      double y = cy + hbi->box_descent - 0.5 * hbi->box_height;
+
+      cairo_new_sub_path (crenderer->cr);
+      cairo_arc (crenderer->cr, x, y, 1.5 * hbi->line_width, 0, 2 * G_PI);
+      cairo_close_path (crenderer->cr);
+      cairo_fill (crenderer->cr);
+      goto done;
+    }
+  else if (ch == '\t')
+    {
+      /* Since we don't want to rely on glyph availability,
+       * we render an arrow like ↦ ourselves.
+       */
+      double y = cy + hbi->box_descent - 0.5 * hbi->box_height;
+      double width = (double)gi->geometry.width / PANGO_SCALE;
+      double offset = 0.2 * width;
+      double x = cx + offset;
+      double al = width - 2 * offset; /* arrow length */
+      double tl = MIN (hbi->digit_width, 0.75 * al); /* tip length */
+      double tw2 = 2.5 * hbi->line_width; /* tip width / 2 */
+      double lw2 = 0.5 * hbi->line_width; /* line width / 2 */
+
+      cairo_move_to (crenderer->cr, x - lw2, y - tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + lw2, y - tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + lw2, y - lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - tl, y - lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - tl, y - tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al,  y);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - tl, y + tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - tl, y + lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + lw2, y + lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + lw2, y + tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x - lw2, y + tw2);
+      cairo_close_path (crenderer->cr);
+      cairo_fill (crenderer->cr);
+      goto done;
+    }
+  else if (ch == '\n' || ch == 0x2028 || ch == 0x2029)
+    {
+      /* Since we don't want to rely on glyph availability,
+       * we render an arrow like ↵ ourselves.
+       */
+      double width = (double)gi->geometry.width / PANGO_SCALE;
+      double offset = 0.2 * width;
+      double al = width - 2 * offset; /* arrow length */
+      double tl = MIN (hbi->digit_width, 0.75 * al); /* tip length */
+      double ah = al - 0.5 * tl; /* arrow height */
+      double tw2 = 2.5 * hbi->line_width; /* tip width / 2 */
+      double x = cx + offset;
+      double y = cy - (hbi->box_height - al) / 2;
+      double lw2 = 0.5 * hbi->line_width; /* line width / 2 */
+
+      cairo_move_to (crenderer->cr, x, y);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + tl, y - tw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + tl, y - lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - lw2, y - lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al - lw2, y - ah);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al + lw2, y - ah);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + al + lw2, y + lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + tl, y + lw2);
+      cairo_line_to (crenderer->cr, x + tl, y + tw2);
+      cairo_close_path (crenderer->cr);
+      cairo_fill (crenderer->cr);
+      goto done;
+    }
   else if ((name = pango_get_ignorable_size (ch, &rows, &cols)))
     {
       /* Nothing else to do, we render 'default ignorable' chars
@@ -402,6 +478,7 @@ _pango_cairo_renderer_draw_unknown_glyph (PangoCairoRenderer *crenderer,
     }
   else
     {
+      /* Everything else gets a traditional hex box. */
       rows = hbi->rows;
       cols = (ch > 0xffff ? 6 : 4) / rows;
       g_snprintf (buf, sizeof(buf), (ch > 0xffff) ? "%06X" : "%04X", ch);