On 01/05/2011 11:30 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 22:55:59 -0500 Christopher Michael<cpmicha...@comcast.net> > said: > >> On 01/05/2011 10:42 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:09:57 -0500 Christopher >>> Michael<cpmicha...@comcast.net> 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. :) > AHHHH Ok. That explains why it works fine in my terminal, but not in elm stuff. Alright, thanks for the info :) I'll have to try a different font then.
Cheers, dh >> 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 >>>> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
