I think that the size difference is related to the specific font used. Georgia is displaying slightly wider in Windows than Mac. Helvetica seems pretty consistent. A Chinese font I use is much smaller in Windows.
Changing Georgia from 16 to 15 is too drastic a change for me, so I need to keep the font size the same. I can’t set the textHeight since I have to set fixedLineHeight to false so I can display thumbnail images within the text. I suspect that the space between lines when fixedLineHeight is false is determined by the specific font metrics, something LiveCode can’t or doesn’t want to override. I haven’t done a test of various fonts comparing the Windows vs. Mac “free” line spacing. Maybe there is a constant among them all… Peter > On Jan 1, 2018, at 2:23 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 1/1/18 2:39 AM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: >> My page layout is fixed — no user settings of font face or size. Also the >> card height doesn’t have room for text fields to get taller. And there was >> the design decision not to show scroll bars. >> Text also often has “widows” at the bottom of the field when the text was >> formatted for Mac but is displayed in Windows. Thus my desire to adjust the >> Windows text to get it to flow similarly to the Mac (where it was authored). > > The old-school method was to find a font size and textheight that matches > what you see on Mac, and on preOpenStack, set the text properties based on > platform. > > It used to be that Windows fonts displayed larger and/or wider than the > same-named Mac fonts. That may have changed recently; my client says Windows > fonts are smaller now. At any rate, do some experimentation on Windows to see > if you can adjust the flow using textsize and textheight, or by experimenting > with different fonts. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
