I think I found something: if you change the fontspec from Xwindows
style ( -*-courier-bold--normal--10-) to standard Tk style { courier 10
bold }, then it looks like the fonts are the same size on MacOSX and
Windows. But then, the only problem is that the object boxes don't
adjust, and are too short for the object text.
It actually swings it the other way, with the same font being bigger on
Windows than on OSX.
.hc
On Nov 26, 2005, at 3:37 PM, carmen wrote:
I don't see how the point size will be somehow different in aspect
ratio from the pixel size?why point/pixel sizes at all? for years the way to specify a font size
for web is in "em" units. 1.0em 0.8em etc..If courier 12 is say 10pixels wide then it should be identical to courier -10 visually, since the aspect *should* be the same.
even a 12 point font can be different on the same platform depending
on which DPI you launched your X server at, which toolkit you are
using, etc..Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by the "at least three
dimensions to a font size"?id say theres at least 4... platform, dpi, font, fontsize
The font issue is really a stumbling block for trying to make anything look constant accross platforms. The current PD documentation is a
great example of this, where, depending on the platform, many help-patches open with overlapping messages/comments. :(how about a scalable canvas with a client-side algo to make sure
nothing overlaps? something like http://whats-your.name/pd/chokun.png
but with less ugly colours?
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