Re: gEDA-user: gschem's new pretty menus

[Mark <mstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed June 10 2009 05:46:43 am Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:51 -0400, Mark wrote:
> > Sooo... It looks really smooth.  I like it a lot.  I'll try to give it a
> > run for the money tomorrow afternoon and will let you know if I find
> > anything.
>
> Thanks. Testing is, as always, appreciated. The main known bug is some
> issues with tab handling, but I'd love to hear if you see them too.

Yes, I see what you are saying.  My testing shows that the tab points are set 
to fixed columns.  I know that the columns aren't fixed on letters but I 
can't tell if they fixed on pixels or distance.  For example, I can get nice 
even tabs when using single characters but if I use too many characters then 
it skips columns.  I tried the letters 'w' and 'i' on separate lines.  I can 
fit 9 i's before it jumps to the next tab column while I can only fit 2 w's 
before it starts jumping columns.

Other than that the only other strange feature I can find is that I am able to 
find text hidden by "Hide specific text..."  The search results take me to 
the location as though something was found but the text remains hidden.  
However, I have never used this feature before so it may have been around for 
quite a while.

>
> > I just have one question.  Can we change the font, or add new ones, or is
> > it hard coded right now?
>
> Hardcoded for now - as our postscript font details always were. The
> postscript has always been "Helvetica". The on-screen renderer uses
> "Arial", or "Helvetica", depending on the setting of an #if 0 or #if 1
> in gschem/src/o_text.c
>
> Arial and Helvertica are very similar fonts, with similar metrics. I
> found Arial had better hinting though, so I've used that whilst testing.

Heh, that's pretty cool.  If you make the text look and work much better I'm 
going to start using gschem for my word processing needs. ;)

-Mark S.


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