I missed the earlier lament (and I did not find it searching thru your home node, and the closest I found using Search was this), so if I'm off base, please just ignore this. Anyway I presume you do one of two things: a) mark the text to effect and then apply the effect, or b) break up the string and send it to the widget in parts. In either case, I guess your question is along the lines of "what should the user send to print?" Is that right?

I think xml style markup might be pretty readable and not too hard to do, particularly if you use the last example below.

and if you don't like HTML

Of course, this means escaping < and so forth. I guess you could do something like use character codes from a famous color terminal...

If I misinterpreted the question, just ignore this, OK?

Just my USD0.02, --traveler

In reply to Re: Proof of concept: color tty window in Tk by traveler
in thread Proof of concept: color tty window in Tk by John M. Dlugosz

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