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authorKenneth Lyons <ixjlyons@gmail.com>2015-10-05 01:10:01 -0700
committerKenneth Lyons <ixjlyons@gmail.com>2015-12-04 10:27:18 -0800
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Added support for Pango markup.
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@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ format as the separator is drawn by i3bar directly otherwise. For the other
output formats, the provided non-empty string will be automatically enclosed
with the necessary coloring bits if color support is enabled.
+i3bar supports Pango markup, allowing your format strings to specify font
+color, size, etc. by setting the +markup+ directive to "pango". Note that the
+ampersand ("&"), less-than ("<"), greater-than (">"), single-quote ("'"), and
+double-quote (""") characters need to be replaced with "`&amp;`", "`&lt;`",
+"`&gt;`", "`&apos;`", and "`&quot;`" respectively. This is done automatically
+for generated content (e.g. wireless ESSID, time).
+
*Example configuration*:
-------------------------------------------------------------
general {
@@ -417,6 +424,18 @@ in the +tztime+ module.
*Example timezone*: +Europe/Berlin+
+If you would like to use markup in this section, there is a separate
++format_time+ option that is automatically escaped. Its output then replaces
+%time in the format string.
+
+*Example configuration (markup)*:
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+tztime time {
+ format = "<span foreground='#ffffff'>time:</span> %time"
+ format_time = "%H:%M %Z"
+}
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+
=== DDate
Outputs the current discordian date in user-specified format. See +ddate(1)+ for