[PD-dev] cross-platform font size

[B. Bogart]

Woops that is:

{courier -12 bold}

My tcl book says nothing I can find about negative font sizes, I beleive
you!

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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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