Displaying formatted text (HTML)

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Right now, we have the formatted text in HTML format.  I don't really want 
> to embed Mozilla, but is there a lightweight GTK HTML widget that I can 
> access from Python that is standard on the XO?
Not that I'm aware of.

>  If not, is there something 
> reasonable someone can suggest?
1. GTK text Labels and other text objects support an HTML-like markup language,
providing the ability to set font, size, color, underline, justification, etc.
2. The AbiWord widgets are relatively easy to embed from python.  You could make
your text an Abiword document.
3. You could just use an SVG.  For localization, switching out the text in an
SVG is just as easy as changing the text in an HTML document.  It's not like the
text is converted to outlines before being saved to the file.  GTK makes it
trivial to display SVGs, as you're probably aware.  It also allows you more
control than options 1 and 2.


- --Ben
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