| | 7:bc or bottom-center
6----7----8 <---- descent 8:br or bottom-right
-Glyph reference point symbols are to be used to specify composition
-rule of the form \(GLOBAL-REF-POINT . NEW-REF-POINT), where
+Glyph reference point symbols are to be used to specify a composition
+rule of the form (GLOBAL-REF-POINT . NEW-REF-POINT), where
GLOBAL-REF-POINT is a reference point in the overall glyphs already
composed, and NEW-REF-POINT is a reference point in the new glyph to
be added.
| | |
| global| |
| glyph | |
- -- | | |-- <--- baseline \(doesn't change)
+ -- | | |-- <--- baseline (doesn't change)
+----+--*--+
| | new |
| |glyph|
+----+-----+ <--- new descent
-A composition rule may have the form \(GLOBAL-REF-POINT
+A composition rule may have the form (GLOBAL-REF-POINT
NEW-REF-POINT XOFF YOFF), where XOFF and YOFF specify how much
to shift NEW-REF-POINT from GLOBAL-REF-POINT. In this case, XOFF
and YOFF are integers in the range -100..100 representing the
(defun compose-chars (&rest args)
"Return a string from arguments in which all characters are composed.
For relative composition, arguments are characters.
-For rule-based composition, Mth \(where M is odd) arguments are
-characters, and Nth \(where N is even) arguments are composition rules.
+For rule-based composition, Mth (where M is odd) arguments are
+characters, and Nth (where N is even) arguments are composition rules.
A composition rule is a cons of glyph reference points of the form
\(GLOBAL-REF-POINT . NEW-REF-POINT). See the documentation of
`reference-point-alist' for more detail."
(defun compose-last-chars (args)
"Compose last characters.
The argument is a parameterized event of the form
- \(compose-last-chars N COMPONENTS),
+ (compose-last-chars N COMPONENTS),
where N is the number of characters before point to compose,
COMPONENTS, if non-nil, is the same as the argument to `compose-region'
\(which see). If it is nil, `compose-chars-after' is called,
unicode-category-table))
(defun compose-gstring-for-terminal (gstring)
- "Compose glyph string GSTRING for terminal display.
+ "Compose glyph-string GSTRING for terminal display.
Non-spacing characters are composed with the preceding base
character. If the preceding character is not a base character,
each non-spacing character is composed as a spacing character by