The negative font sizes seem to work for me. But it looks like somethings will have to be changed in Pd in order to support them properly.
I am going to wait and see where Miller is going with his font reorg before doing any more with this.
.hc
On Jun 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
Woops that is:
{courier -12 bold}
My tcl book says nothing I can find about negative font sizes, I beleive you!
B<>
B. Bogart wrote:
the X11 style font should be replacable with:
{courier bold -12}
after the -font option.
I've not tried it myself, HC please sed it and lets see what happens! :)
B>
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:56 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
So a bunch of us are working on workshops and documentation and we are of course butting our heads against the font issue again. Does anyone have a good idea to fix this? I remember some talk about converting the fonts to pixel sizes rather than point sizes. That sounds like exactly what we should do. I've poked around a bit, but my Tcl skills are not so sharp.
in tk you just give the size as negative values and that'll be the font-size in pixels (absolute)
so, while a font-size "12" is 12 points, "-12" is 12 pixels.
here ends my knowledge of tcl/tk
I remember that discussion. What I don't really know is where to put change 12 to -12. The fonts are specified in the Xwindows style:
-*-courier-bold--normal--12-*
Do we have to change to a different format for specifying fonts?
.hc
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