[Sugar-devel] FWD: Sugar font size & wiki

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Walter, Tomeu, thanks a lot for your quick replies, much appreciated!

I just heard back from the Graz folks and they said that their activity 
"looks much better now":-)

Cheers,
Christoph

Tomeu Vizoso schrieb:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 20:22, Christoph Derndorfer
> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> a small team of students and a professor at the Technical University
>> Graz (in CC) is currently working on an activity to exercise Maths based
>> on the requests by the teachers of our small Austrian OLPC / Sugar pilot.
>>
>> Anyway, they're currently running into some issues wrt to setting the
>> font-size in their activity, please see the message below for details.
>>
>> Any help or pointers to possible solutions would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Christoph
>>
>> Walther Neuper schrieb:
>>
>> --- snip ---
>>> Two issues become urgent now:
>>>
>>> # Sugar does _not_ accept our way of specifying the font size:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the best way to do this in versions <0.84 is:
> 
> from sugar.graphics import style
> pango.FontDescription("sans %d" % style.zoom(72))
> 
> This way, it should scale correctly both on the XO and in normal
> machines. It's basically the same that Walter does, but should be
> simpler.
> 
> In Sugar >=0.84, just specify always the same font size and it should
> look fine in all screens.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Tomeu
> 
>>>        self.toggle_equal = gtk.ToggleButton("<==>")
>>>        self.toggle_equal.modify_font(pango.FontDescription("sans 72"))
>>>        self.toggle_equal.connect("toggled", self.toggle_equal_callback)
>>>        self.settings_table.attach(self.toggle_equal, 3, 4, 11, 12 )
>>>        self.toggle_equal.show()
>>>
>>>   With this code the font size is taken as a (too small) default, and we
>>> would like to
>>>   deliver ReckonPrimer1.0 as soon as possible
>> --- snip ---
>>
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>> Christoph Derndorfer
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