Problems with Text Tag Outlines (Not Supported)

[SelLi]

Hello everybody, I was wondering if it would be possible to apply outlines to text via text tags.

I've tried the following code:

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init:
    $ style.UL = Style(style.default)
    $ style.UL.outlines = [(1, "#000", 0, 0)]
    $ style.UL.color = "#f00"

And then later, in game...

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"{=UL}\"Well, sort of...\"{/=UL} He confesses."

And though the color does change with the tag and I get no errors, the outline isn't applying. This seems like another one of those simple problems, but I don't know what to do. Can somebody help me, please?

Thank you very much. ^^

[nyaatrap]

It's out of support looking at the doc http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#style-text-tags

[SelLi]

It's out of support looking at the doc http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#style-text-tags

I see, that's good to know. Thanks for your help.

[Tayruu]

That's... weird. I mean, I can apply text outline in general to an element, but it does seem to be that text tags don't accept outline values.

[PyTom]

The reason is that drawing outlines requires the text to be drawn multiple times, on multiple layers. If text tags supported outlines, it would be hard to determine how many layers to draw. (I'm using layers in the photoshop sense here, not the Ren'Py sense.)