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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/pango_markup.sgml')
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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 &#169; for © can +be used too. +</para> + +<para> The root tag of a marked-up document is <markup>, 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. <span> 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, |