> > That's a feature that HG ported from winboard. The "sizeNNN:" in front > says "use this font only for square size NNN". If you don't have the > "sizeNNN:" > there, xboard will use the font for whatever the current square size is. > But > when it saves settings, it saves the fonts only for the current square > size. This feature is more important in WinBoard where there is a font > selection dialog and you can change the fonts (and the square size too) > without exiting and restarting the program. >
Short comment from the Ionian isle of Kefalonia: This turned out to be pretty essential when we started saving settings. At first I naively saved the font variables from appData. But it was the matched font that would be saved, not the template with all the wild-cards, meaning that it would have a specific point size. If you would then later start XBoard with another -size, you would get totally non-fitting characters with it, because the full specification would basically disable the entire font-selection process. So at first I just refrained from saving the -font options altogether. Then I tried this WinBoard-inspired solution of saving the matched fonts per size, so that they would not affect any other board size than the one in force during the original selection process. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
