I want to create bi-colored pills like those used by e.g. gitlab scoped labels.
This can be done in the following way (heavily based on tidy implementation) from @Mc-Zen : Typst
However, as shown in the document, such pills do not like to be very long, and they mess up line breaks if they are.
Basically, I need a way to split a horizontal box over multiple lines.
I tried to find a simple solution that would not require complex context calculations, but I failed.
Any idea?
Maybe you could achieve what you want with highlight. A nice solution would be
#let pill(a, b, fill: red) = {
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
radius: (left: 100pt),
text(white, [~#a~])
)
highlight(
fill: white,
stroke: fill,
radius: (right: 100%),
text(fill, [~#b~])
)
}
Unfortunately, after a linebreak, the rounded corners are repeated
At least it’s already much better than using boxes. You could trick around a bit by adding the rounded beginning (and also end but here I did only the beginning) separately:
#let pill(a, b, fill: red) = {
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
radius: (left: 100pt),
[~~~~~]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
text(white, [#a~])
)
highlight(
fill: white,
stroke: fill,
radius: (right: 100%),
text(fill, [~#b~])
)
}
This is something you might be able to tune until it looks good.
Thanks for that!
However it still breaks if it’s the rightmost part to go to a new line:
But I’ll surely find some more time to play around it and see if I can find a possible solution based on highlight instead of box
I know, I was just giving the idea based on the left part but you can do the same with the right one, I think.
Note that highlight.stroke accepts a dictionary which you can use like this
#let pill(a, b, fill: red) = {
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
radius: (left: 100%),
[~~~~~]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
text(white, [#a~])
)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill),
text(fill, [~#b])
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill, right: fill),
radius: (right: 100%),
text(fill, [~~~~~])
)
}
Still not perfect maybe but betterer.
Getting there!
#let pill(a, b, fill: gray, radius: 100%) = {
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
radius: (left: radius),
[~~~~~#sym.zws]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
text(white, hyphenate: true, [#a~#sym.zws])
)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill),
text(hyphenate: true)[#sym.zws~#b]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill, right: fill),
radius: (right: radius),
text(fill, [~~~~~])
)
}
#box(width: 9em)[
#pill("definitely good even when")[it goes to new line!]
]
#box(width: 9em)[
#pill("first")[line!]\
#pill("second")[line! All good!]
#pill("thirddddddddddddd")[line! All good!]
#pill("fourth")[line! Less good!]
]
I had to also add a few sym.zws to force it to go to new lines and not mess it up trying to connect different highlights.
It produces:
As you can see the last pill is not great, but it is almost there. Any brilliant idea on that one?
For the last one you could add a word joiner sym.wj between the h and the last highlight to force the last word to stick to the rounded ending.
Indeed that works well!
#let pill(a, b, fill: gray, radius: 100%) = {
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
radius: (left: radius),
[#sym.zws~~~~~#sym.wj]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: fill,
stroke: fill,
text(white, hyphenate: true, [#sym.wj#a~#sym.zws])
)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill),
text(hyphenate: true)[#sym.zws~#b#sym.wj]
)
h(-.7em)
highlight(
fill: none,
stroke: (y: fill, right: fill),
radius: (right: radius),
text(fill, [#sym.wj~~~~~#sym.zws])
)
}
#box(width: 9em)[
#pill("definitely good even when")[it goes to new line!]
]
#box(width: 9em)[
#pill("first")[line!]\
#pill("second")[line! All good!]
#pill("thirddddddddddddd")[line! All good!]
#pill("fourth")[line! Also good!]
#pill("fifthhhhhhhhhhhhhhh")[line! Indeed also good!]
]
Results in:
To me this is almost perfect!
Good one! The word-joiner was what I was looking for but I didn’t find it because I had forgotten the name.
This sounds related: Add documentation about ways to customize breaking of words · Issue #5624 · typst/typst · GitHub.
I’m still playing around with this to improve the final look and make it more generic. I’ll post here when I have a final version.
But, a question to the wise… this seems hackish at best.
Is there no other way to do this?
I mean, if someone were to write a package to do this, which route would one take?
I don’t understand what is missing in How to create colored pills that span multiple lines? (multiline boxes) - #8 by adriano. Is it too complex? You can open a new Questions topic for a different question.
This also sounds something like Allow adding content / configuring breakpoints of broken blocks · Issue #735 · typst/typst · GitHub, but horizontally.
It is… hackish.
In fact if you start applying it it shows several limitations:
Even modifying the highlight’s edges did not seem to fix this.
#pill[text текст テキスト][next]
#highlight(stroke: 1pt)[text текст テキスト]
Looks like
indeed, that’s probably what it is! Watching the issue, thanks!