Pango markup don't seem to work with a custom module

[janemba]

Hello,

I've made a very custom module to display text coming from a server which is JSON formatted.

I would like to style a part of the text using pango markup but its not working.

My config file below:

    "custom/news": {
        "format": "{}",
        "exec": "$HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py",
        "interval": 120,
        "escape": true,
        "max-length": 120,
        "return-type": "json",
        "on-click": "xdg-open $($HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py --url)",
        "on-click-right": "xdg-open $($HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py --comments)"
    }

Basically, exec field receive the following text:

{"text": "story :: Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub :: 23", "tooltip": "hackernews:\n\t<span style=\"italic\">left-click: goto news\n\tright-click: goto comments</span>"}

Above, I'm trying to set in italic a part of tooltip field. However, the tooltip itself display the whole string in waybar with the span tag.

How can I make it right ?

(I'm on wayland with hyprland)

[RobertMueller2]

Have you tried to remove "escape": true?

[janemba]

Yes, this is in my initial config:

    "custom/news": {
        "format": "{}",
        "exec": "$HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py",
        "interval": 120,
        "escape": true,
        "max-length": 120,
        "return-type": "json",
        "on-click": "xdg-open $($HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py --url)",
        "on-click-right": "xdg-open $($HOME/.config/waybar/scripts/newsreader.py --comments)"
    }

[RobertMueller2]

I meant, did you try without the highlighted line? Because with "escape" : true, the custom module first processes the output through markup_escape_text, so e.g. <span> becomes <span>.

[janemba]

Oups remove , sorry.

I just deleted it and now it works thank you.