Re: Pango change, first^Wsecond baby step !

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Sat, Jun 22, 2002, à 03:29:28PM +0200, Hans Breuer a écrit:

>> >           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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