URL:
<http://gna.org/bugs/?21649>
Summary: Consecutive line breaks not rendered as expected
with Pango/Cairo (GUI2, etc.)
Project: Battle for Wesnoth
Submitted by: shadowmaster
Submitted on: Fri 14 Feb 2014 02:28:57 AM CLST
Category: Bug
Severity: 4 - Important
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: User Interface
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 1.11.x
Operating System: Windows XP - 8
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Details:
On Windows (but not Linux), consecutive line breaks are not rendered as
expected with Pango/Cairo (via the ttext type) as used by GUI2 or story
screens, making it non-trivial to ensure paragraphs of text in the same string
have a minimum separation between them.
I'm attaching screenshots of one of the story screens for the first scenario
of the A Tale of Two Brothers campaign as one of the most evident examples,
but this problem can also be observed with all the mainline campaign
descriptions featured in the Campaigns menu, where the line stating the
campaign difficulty and length is separated from the rest of the description
by two consecutive line breaks to form two distinct paragraphs.
Interestingly enough, there is a (unfortunately _very_ inconvenient) way to
work around this issue by inserting a single whitespace character (ASCII 0x20)
for each line that would otherwise be empty, i.e. between the line breaks.
I consider this bug to be rather important since it severely impacts the
ability of UMC authors to format prose in more text-heavy add-on campaigns in
a form that is rendered consistently across all supported platforms.
I have only experienced this bug on Windows myself (outdated Cairo/Pango
versions? see also: my note about versions on bug #21648).
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File Attachments:
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Date: Fri 14 Feb 2014 02:28:57 AM CLST Name:
wesnoth-win32-double-line-breaks.png Size: 296kB By: shadowmaster
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20045>
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Date: Fri 14 Feb 2014 02:28:57 AM CLST Name:
wesnoth-win32-double-line-breaks-linux-comparison.png Size: 323kB By:
shadowmaster
<http://gna.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20046>
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