TRichView: Text and Paragraph Attributes

Text Attributes

TRichView supports the following character attributes:

• font name, size (in half-points), style;
• text color and text background color;
• subscripts and superscripts;
• horizontal characters scaling (without changing their height);
• custom inter-character spacing;
• bi-directional text flow mode;
• anti-aliasing mode;
• customizable underlines, overlines, strike-out lines.

Hypertext links have additional attributes:

• color of text and background under the mouse cursor;
• underline under the mouse cursor;
• custom hypertext cursor.

Paragraph Attributes

TRichView supports the following paragraph attributes:

• alignment: left, right, center, justify* and distribute**;
• special alignment for last lines of justified and distributed paragraphs;
• left and right indents, first line indent;
• additional spacing before and after paragraphs;
• tab stops (left/right/centered, with an optional leader);
• custom line spacing;
• colored background with specified padding and opacity;
• borders of several styles;
• bi-directional text flow mode.

* aligns text to both left and right sides, adding space between words if necessary
** aligns text to both left and right sides, adding space between characters if necessary; this alignment type is useful for East Asian scripts which do not use space characters to separate words (such as Chinese); not supported in FireMonkey version

Custom Drawing

TRichView provides several events for custom drawing of text, paragraph background, checkpoints and page breaks.