Now that we have pango support for dialogs we also have more options to do formatting. At the moment this formatting is used by the engine internally to convert the Wesnoth markup to pango markup. The question is do we want to allow the WML authors to use pango markup or not.
The pros and cons of both markup systems Pango [1] Pro: - Markup can be used everywhere in a text. - looks like html, which might be easier for authors of WML to reconized. Con: - Certain characters like & must be escaped like & Wesnoth markup [2] Pro: - Simple to use. Con: - Markup can be used on a per line basis. If we want to give WML authors acces to the Pango syntax do we also want to keep the current WML syntax? (I see no way to automate the conversion easily, especially since I expect authors want to take advantage of the new way, so the text needs a manual review. So we'll need a, long, transition phase supporting both syntaxes if we want to phase it out.) Of course if we decide to do it we'll need to discuss how to implement it in WML and how to help the WML authors to properly escape their strings. But I rather put off those questions until we know what we want. [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/unstable/PangoMarkupFormat.html [2] http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/InterfaceActionsWML#.5Bmessage.5D -- Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
