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Is there a way to escape to a different format with DrawString?

For example I might want to italicize v in the following:

string s = "A mathematical expression with a variable, \EscapeFormat{v} = \u03C1 ";
document.DrawString(s, point, format, escapeFormat[1]);

The unicode character specification goes fine with
XPdfFontOptions options = new XPdfFontOptions(PdfFontEncoding.Unicode);

But the question is: is there a way to escape to other formats using DrawString?
Are there other methods that would let me do that, or do I need to invent an escape mechanism myself?

/regards

Hi!
I'm afraid with PDFsharp you have to do the escaping yourself.
With MigraDoc, you can use AddFormattedText - or use the MDDDL format.
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/MigraDocDDL.ashx

AFAIK you can read paragraphs from MDDDL, so your strings would have to be MDDDL paragraphs to keep parsing simple.
Or use your own escaping and convert the string to an MDDDL paragraph.

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team