[PD-dev] cross-platform font size

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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

________________________________________________________________________ 
___

"Information wants to be free."
                                      -Stewart Brand
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 2353 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/attachments/20050609/963056b3/attachment.bin>