Hello all, What is the best way to create/access fonts? So far, TextStyle defaultFont seems to work. I was about to write that I was feeling lost otherwise when I recalled setting fonts by name in Migrate, and a comment therein reveals that I stole some preferences from Lukas who used LogicalFont. Perhaps specifying the family name following his example (with cues from exploring LogicalFont all) is the answer?
What about what Microsoft (sorry...) calls font metrics? By involving a device context (canvas in our world), one can find out how big a particular string will be on the target device's resolution, and allowing for kerning. So far, I have found #heightOf: and #widthOf: in the Font hierarchy, which means they know nothing of the intended device, and do not (obviously anyway) seem to know about kerning. Are there glaringly missing features here, or is this simply an consequence of printing being done via PostScript and therefore still in terms of point sizes? Bill _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
