Hope this is an easy answer to someone knowledgeable about Ptolemy. I
checked the comp.soft-sys.ptolemy newsgroup's font discussions but haven't
found an answer...
Thanks!
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> From: Kemenczy Zoltan-LZK005
> Sent: September 17, 1998 11:16 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Question/Problem about Label Font Setting
>
> Hi Christopher,
>
> I hope this will not take too much of your time and I hope you are the
> right person to ask... If not, please forward this mail to the right
> person...
>
> I have downloaded the prebuilt binaries and the src/other package with
> X11R6 to our HPUX 10.20. We are using NTs with the X-Win32 (with all
> hp/sco/misc/75/100 and some other fonts available and loaded) as
> workstations accepting X clients from HPUX.
>
> My problem is that I can't get the Vem.label.fonts spec to work. It does
> have an effect on the size of the label display area, but within that area
> vem seems to be finding and using the same default font (I suspect it is
> the "system" font of NT). On the other hand, the vem console window takes
> all the font specs tried including the default 6x10, any *iso8859, etc.
> and displays the font correctly.
>
> I wonder if there is a simple answer to this. Resizing (zooming) in on
> schematics doesn't change the size of the label font (as I surmize it
> should based on a quick glance through the vem source code), just displays
> the label in the same size (system?) font.
>
> The relevant portion of my .Xdefault is below (showing some of the font
> specs I tried)
>
> #Vem*font: *-times-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> #Vem*font: *-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>
> Vem*font: 6x10
> Vem.label.fonts: 6x10 # not the same displayed as for Vem*font
> above
>
> # Vem.label.fonts: *-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 #
> should be resizable", doesn't work
> # Vem.label.font: 9x15
> # Vem.boundbox.font: 9x15
>
> At this point I'm the only one here evaluating Ptolemy, we maybe end up
> using it for some simulation/test-vector generation for some of our DSP
> code. It is very hard to read the labels unless the icons are resized
> (enlarged).
>
> Any response would be appreciated. With some pointers, if need be, I
> could rebuild the binaries with gcc -g (2.8.1)/ gas and attempt to debug
> the code and let you know my findings.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zoltan Kemenczy
> Senior Staff Engineer
> Motorola Internet and Networking Group, Network Systems Division
> 400 Matheson Boulevard West
> Mississauga, Ontario Canada L5R 3M1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(905) 507-7207 Fax:(905) 507-7353
>
>
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