[Qt-interest] Line Spacing options in Qt

[Stephen Jackson]

On 24 May 2010 18:40, Josh wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Would anyone be interested in me posting some code to add line spacing
> options to Qt? I'll explain.
>
> I've written briefly a couple times on my attempt to add line spacing
> options to Qt (fixed spacing, proportional, etc., as in modern word
> processors). I submitted a patch to Qt, but it was rejected as being out of
> scope. So I went back to the drawing board to figure out if it would be
> feasible to subclass QAbstractTextDocumentLayout with all the features of
> the standard text layout, plus my additional feature. I was able to strip
> the private QTextDocumentLayout class out of Qt, remove references to
> private parts of the API, and got it to compile as a separate library. I
> didn't think this would be possible, but it looks like it's working. The
> question is whether this would be of interest to anyone? If so, I'd be
> willing to clean it up a bit and put it online with some minimal
> documentation. It's a little bit of a hack as it uses -qt-user-state to pass
> in the line spacing options as I wanted to touch as little of Qt as
> possible, and this was already in QTextBlock with css support.
>
> Let me know.
>

Yes please, Josh. You're a star!

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Cheers,

Stephen Jackson