mtext_put_prop(3) Set a text property.

SYNOPSIS

int mtext_put_prop (MText * mt, int from, int to, MSymbol key, void * val)

DESCRIPTION

Set a text property. The mtext_put_prop() function sets a text property to the characters between from (inclusive) and to (exclusive) in M-text mt. key and val specify the key and the value of the text property. With this function, 

                     FROM                   TO
M-text: |<------------|-------- MT ---------|------------>|
PROP  :  <------------------ OLD_VAL -------------------->

becomes 

                     FROM                   TO
M-text: |<------------|-------- MT ---------|------------>|
PROP  :  <-- OLD_VAL-><-------- VAL -------><-- OLD_VAL-->

RETURN VALUE

If the operation was successful, mtext_put_prop() returns 0. Otherwise it returns -1 and assigns an error code to the external variable merror_code.

ERRORS

MERROR_RANGE, MERROR_SYMBOL

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001 Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA)
Copyright (C) 2001-2011 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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