Re: [g-a-devel]hard coded font sizes

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 15:03, Bill Haneman wrote:
> jacob berkman wrote:
> > 
> > in the fix for bug #78001, it uses hard coded font sizes.
> > 
> > for a11y reasons, this is frowned upon, right?  and we should be using
> > <span size="foo"> markup strings to do size changes?
> > 
> > or is there a way of saying "give me this font, but bigger" to pango?
> 
> There is markup for <smaller> and <larger>, which is what I think
> you would want to use if you were passing explicit markup to pango.
> I am not sure 'size="foo"' will give you a relative size, you might
> ask owen or do some poking in the code.

bug-buddy and GnomeDruid use 'size="xx-large"' in the markup and it
indeed works well.  sorry i didn't say what i meant by foo.

> This is for the splash screen, right?  

yes.

jacob
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