On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:55:59 -0500 Christopher Michael <[email protected]> said:
> On 01/05/2011 10:42 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:09:57 -0500 Christopher > > Michael<[email protected]> said: > > > > wtf... looks like the ascent/descent of the font is 0 height. it shouldn't > > be - even with a bitmap font. a bitmap font should still have an ascent > > +descent. check using regular text objects and get ascent/descent from that > > font. > > > > Yea, that looks to be the case...the ascent/descent is 0. If I set the > Shine font for buttons, list items, etc, etc I get similar weirdness in > that button labels, list items, etc, etc are unreadable: > > http://home.comcast.net/~devilhorns/files/elm_shine_font.png so to me.. smells of a broken font. as such terminals dont care about ascent/descent as they dont have to align the baseline with other fonts. they can assume the single mono font for everything. it's just a series of the same sized boxes in a grid, but when you combine with all the other text - it's REALLY needed the BASELINE for all the text must line up - that means the line from which ascent and descent is given... and those 2 give the effective line height of the font (ascent+descent). so.. smells of broken font to me. :) > dh > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Just writing because I found a weird elm_entry issue. Apparently, you > >> cannot use bitmap fonts too well w/ elm_entry. Here is a screenshot of > >> the elm_entry test when using a bitmap font. As you can see, something > >> is up w/ the text placement of some lines. Not sure why or what, but > >> just wanted to bring it to someone's attention. (For reference, the font > >> that is used here is Shine: http://www.ping.uio.no/~ay/fonts/fonts.shtml). > >> > >> http://home.comcast.net/~devilhorns/files/elm_entry.png > >> > >> dh > >> > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
