[PD-dev] cross-platform font size

[B. Bogart]

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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