[cl-pdf-devel] Inserting bold text during normal text

[Marc Battyani]

"Jonathon McKitrick" <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:

> Here's another question.  My client wants a couple of lines in a report to
> be
> in bold, but I have the entire page as raw text in a database.  There was
> a
> php pdf library that would let me embed html style tags to bold certain
> lines.
>
> Is there anything like that in cl-pdf, where I can store tags in the
> database
> text and have the text in between generated in bold, italics, etc?  Or is
> there some other way than rolling my own tag parser?

There is an HTML to cl-typesetting front-end in the contrib directory of
cl-typesetting.
BTW to layout text you need cl-typesetting above cl-pdf

Marc