On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Sat, Jun 22, 2002, � 03:29:28PM +0200, Hans Breuer a �crit:
>> > It's one of the directions I'll try to tweak your
>> first public version. The goal simply is to keep the objects
>> font access as clean and simple as possible. And do the
>> scaling of fonts in the renderers with the most appropriate
>> - not yet choosen - algorithm.
>
> Hmmm, yes.
>
> One thing which becomes more and more self-evident as I convert objects,
> is that we almost *never* ever use a DiaFont without passing a size
> argument as well. This pleads for putting the (nominal) size >inside<
> DiaFont...
Remember that the objects don't pass a size that's useable by Pango, it
first has to be converted by the zoom factor of the display. Which means
that we can't hope to this:
>> I think we could make this look similar to
>>
>> /* Objects care for a specific font in a dia_unit.
>> * Currently the font family/face and the size are
>> * still splitted. If they become merged the standard
>> * GtkFontSelection widget could probably be used to
>> * let the user choose
>> */
>> obj->font = dia_font_new ("Courier 12")
>
> Yes. The string would be a stringified PangoFontDescription -- that way
> we don't even need to parse it.
because we always have to parse the size.
-Lars
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