[Therion] Question/Problem with customizing text labels

[Владимир Георгиев]

There is also a "min-symbol-scale" option in layout, which hides smaller
symbols. It might work similar to what you are doing in the font_setup
metapost.
You can hide the smallest items, not the largest ones, but hiding the
larger ones is not that useful anyway.


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Henry.Bennett--- via Therion <
therion at speleo.sk> wrote:

> Hi Vladimir,
>
>
>
> “-scale” sounds interesting.  One of the things I like about s,m,l,xl, etc
> was the ability in metapost to set xs to zero (0).
>
>
>
> Consider a system where you have a full size survey of a single cave.  I
> can draw that cave with full detail using xs set to a x font size. When
> that cave intercepts the cave master I can simply draw the system by
> suppressing some of the detail by using
>
>
>
>   code metapost
>
>     #change the size of the default fonts
>
>     #fonts_setup(<tinysize>,<smallsize>,<normalsize>,<
> largesize>,<hugesize>);
>
>     fonts_setup(0,18,40,64,80);
>
>   endcode
>
>
>
> I will take a look at –scale and see how that works in such a case.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Henry Bennett*
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> *From:* Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] *On Behalf Of *????????
> ???????? via Therion
> *Sent:* 15 May 2017 16:34
> *To:* Bennett, Henry <Henry_Bennett at Dell.com>
> *Cc:* Владимир Георгиев <vld.georgiev at gmail.com>; TherionList <
> therion at speleo.sk>
> *Subject:* Re: [Therion] Question/Problem with customizing text labels
>
>
>
> Henry
>
> After a talk with Stacho, he thought that it would be better not to
> increase the list of sizes. They are restrictive, in a sense that you have
> a limited set and can not use anything larger or smaller or in-between
> sizes.
>
> There was a "scale" option that already existed, but was not enabled, so
> he enabled it.
>
> For point and line items you can use this option:
>
> "-scale <number>", where <number> is the scale factor. The normal size
> corresponds to 1.0, but you can use any value >0.
>
> Vladimir
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:48 PM, <Henry.Bennett at dell.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,  I see that more text size options didn’t make it into the 5.4.1
> release.
>
>
>
> Would be great to see it in a future release.
>
>
>
> Thanks, Henry
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] *On Behalf Of *????????
> ???????? via Therion
> *Sent:* 13 December 2016 15:13
> *To:* List for Therion users <therion at speleo.sk>
> *Cc:* Владимир Георгиев <vld.georgiev at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Therion] Question/Problem with customizing text labels
>
>
>
> Torsten
>
> I can't confirm or test the issue, but if the -xl size is too small, you
> can check out the beta version here https://github.com/
> vldgeorgiev/therion/wiki
>
> A few weeks ago I added three more large symbol sizes. E.g. 2XL, 3XL and
> 4XL. They might work in your case.
>
>
> If I have time next week I will see about the frame size and why it is
> drawn smaller.
>
> Vladimir
>
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