Not yet there, but as a follow up question, how do I get the width of a 
monospaced font? I need this to calculate the rect that a textcontainer needs 
for x amount of fonts.

- Koen.


On Aug 31, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Ross Carter <rosscarter...@me.com> wrote:

> Or a custom NSGlyphGenerator. There was a WWDC session on this a few years 
> back.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012, at 08:24 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote:
>>> Is it possible to insert character/glyphs in an NSTextView without
>>> changing the underlying NSTextStorage ?  The goal is to have some
>>> special characters (eg a hyphen) at specific places in the string that
>>> is displayed in the view. So when the data is saved, the special
>>> characters are not part of it.
>> 
>> Glyphs aren't part of the text storage. So you would create a custom
>> typesetter, hook it up to the layout manager of the text view you use
>> for on-screen drawing, and have it generate additional glyphs.
>> 
>> --Kyle Sluder
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