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Hi everyone,

I'm a relatively new ImageMagick user so I hope my question makes sense. What I would like to know is if it is possible to style a portion of text in a caption. More specifically, I want to be able to create a multi-line caption representing a series of questions and answers, where the questions are bolded. Is this possible, and if so, how? I'm using RMagick.

So for example, I might have the following string of text:

var string = "This is a question?\nThis is an answer.\nThis is another question?\nThis is another answer."

Which should yield a caption like this:

This is a question?
This is an answer.

This is another question?
This is another answer.

I'm open to other approaches other than a caption as long as they support multiple lines of text and auto font sizing.

Thanks!

With ImageMagic, the two most flexible mechanisms for text are SVG and Pango.

For Pango, see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#pango

For SVG, see the SVG standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/

However, for some purposes you can build up a text image from smaller images, one per paragraph, setting each paragraph in whatever font, size, weight etc that you want.

Thanks, that's helpful! I wasn't even aware of Pango but it seems like a viable solution for what I'm trying to do.