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quirky cosmetic issue: italicized emoji

Open wolftune opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

I added emoji to some of my reminders. I just saw for the first time that they get italicized in full display. The slanted italicized :lotus_position: image is odd. Not sure if there's anything to do about it. Potentially offer font choices or don't use italics, or maybe there's a way to not apply italics to emoji (incidentally, _:lotus_position:_ doesn't render as italicized here in GitHub).

Not a priority issue, just noting it. It's quirky, not strictly desired.

wolftune avatar Dec 18 '21 04:12 wolftune

Noticed this is related to https://github.com/kmac/mindfulnotifier/issues/23

wolftune avatar Dec 18 '21 04:12 wolftune

Looking at using https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_markdown to allow markdown formatting. I'm not sure at the moment what that would mean for the notification text. Needs investigation.

kmac avatar Dec 18 '21 14:12 kmac

To be clear, this particular quirk only shows up in the large display in the app. Notifications that I see have no italics.

On a side-note: I don't mind the italics as default. I don't know if anyone has explored the question of using Markdown in such a way where italics are the default and the italics markup results in non-italics, as in https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/106106/how-to-italicize-a-word-in-an-italic-context

And I found cases where people really like italicized emoji. An italic face emoji that leans has a different implication. But italicized lotus position emoji is weird.

Maybe if MN can somehow use an italicized font by default, that wouldn't slant the emoji.

I feel silly, this quirky thing doesn't seem to deserve this level of attention. 😛

wolftune avatar Dec 18 '21 15:12 wolftune