Juan,

I hope you don't mind if I CC squeak-dev.

> On 8/17/2015 6:34 PM, David T. Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a bit surprised nobody commented on the attach. I'm quite happy
>>> about not having to give up our traditional assignment symbol, and at
>>> the same time, handle and display correctly underscores in names. These
>>> are sometimes useful when dealing with external code and stuff. I won't
>>> deny it, I'm also a bit proud of the idea to make it possible. Looking
>>> at the screenshot, doesn't it make you think "how the hell did he do
>>> it?"
>>> ?
>> Well, that's what *I* was wondering. So how did you do that???
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Well, the first idea was that it given that a StrikeFont can already
> swap glyphs (#useUnderscores, #useLeftArrow), then it is possible to
> build cheap derivative fonts that do that, and TextStyles for them.
> Then, Shout parses code and sets TextEmphasis like italics or colors for
> differenc code elements. I just made it set a TextEmphasis with
> underscores for identifiers.
>
> It is so simple that I find it surprising that nobody (including me)
> thought about this years ago!
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>

What a great idea!

Dave