https://github.com/alisoftware/ohattributedstringadditions

NSAttributedString Additions that add convenience methods to manipulate attributed strings easily
https://github.com/alisoftware/ohattributedstringadditions

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NSAttributedString Additions that add convenience methods to manipulate attributed strings easily

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alisoftware/ohattributedstringadditions
• Owner: AliSoftware
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-08-14T00:14:17.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-05-13T14:55:20.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-11T21:22:30.357Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.84 MB
• Stars: 107
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# OHAttributedStringAdditions

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This pod contains categories on `NSAttributedString` to add a lot of very useful convenience methods to manipulate attributed strings.

Convenience methods include:

* **font** manipulation (`setFont:range:` and `fontAtIndex:effectiveRange:`)

* **text color** (`setTextColor:range:` and `textColorAtIndex:effectiveRange:`)

* **background color**

* **bold**, *italics* and *underline* styles

* add **URLs** to your text

* **paragraph styles** (**indentation**, **line spacing**, …)

* baseline adjustment, **subscript**, **superscript**, …

* And much more

It also contains:

* A category on `UIFont` to build a font given its postscript name and derive a bold/italic font from a standard one and vice-versa.

* A category on `UILabel` to make it easier to detect the character at a given coordinate, which is useful to detect if the user tapped on a link (if the character as a given tapped `CGPoint` has an associated `NSURL`) and similar stuff

> Note that for advanced URL detection, you should still prefer `UITextView` (configuring it with `editable=NO`) and its dedicated delegate methods instead of using `UILabel` (which does not publicly expose its `NSLayoutManager` to properly compute the exact way its characters are laid out, forcing us to recreate the TextKit objects ourselves, contrary to `UITextView`).

## Documentation

The source code is fully commented and documentation is auto-generated [here](http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/OHAttributedStringAdditions).

There is also some help pages [in the repository's wiki](https://github.com/AliSoftware/OHAttributedStringAdditions/wiki).

## Installation

The suggested installation is via [CocoaPods](http://cocoapods.org/). Simply add the following line to your `Podfile`:

```

pod 'OHAttributedStringAdditions'

```

Then do a `pod install`.

## Example

A demo project is provided in the repository. Don't hesitate to open `Example/AttributedStringDemo.xcworkspace` and play with it.

If you have CocoaPods, you can even try that Sample project even if you don't have cloned the project yet, by using `pod try OHAttributedStringAdditions` in your terminal.

![Demo Capture](README.png)

## Future improvements

* Improving **documentation on edge cases**, like documenting the behavior about when some attribute is not present or if we are allowed to pass nil to arguments.

* Adding **support for OSX**. This should only need little adjustments, like getting rid of the `#import ` in the pch file, or replacing `UIColor` and `UIFont` classes with `NSColor` and `NSFont` (using macros to switch from one to another depending on the SDK), but that still requires some work and tests.

> _Note: The original code of these categories comes from my old `OHAttributedLabel` pod, which is now deprecated as I don't have time to maintain it. As this previous implementation was based on CoreText and was not compatible (sometimes even crash) with UIKit/TextKit, I converted those categories to create this UIKit-compliant `NSAttributedString`, not related to CoreText and `OHAttributedLabel` anymore and that now work with latest versions of iOS/UIKit/TextKit._

## Licence

This component is under the MIT Licence (See the `LICENSE` file).