mdbFontSize(5)

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version 1.8.4 · 2 versions
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💖 mdbFontSize 💖

ok so bestie, this is mdbFontSize(5), a page from The m17n Library manual, and it's literally all about font size. yes. that's the whole vibe. sit with me 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mdbFontSize — Font Size 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

ok so picture this: sometimes a font is out here lying about how big it actually is. incorrect information about its size, no cap. it's typically the case with a hacked TrueType font, and the drama is that when you use a font like that next to other fonts, your text layout comes out busted. 😭

to fix that mess, the m17n library goes and grabs font-size adjustment info from the m17n database, using the tags <font, resize>. and the data it loads? it's a plist, formatted like this 👇

FONT-SIZE-ADJUSTMENT ::= PER-FONT *

PER-FONT ::= '(' FONT-SPEC ADJUST-RATIO ')'

FONT-SPEC ::=
    '(' [ FOUNDRY FAMILY
          [ WEIGHT [ STYLE [ STRETCH [ ADSTYLE ]]]]]
    REGISTRY ')'

ADJUST-RATIO ::= INTEGER

so FONT-SPEC is there to specify the properties of a font, periodt. FOUNDRY through REGISTRY are symbols that correspond to the #Mfoundry through #Mregistry properties of a font — and if you wanna know what each of those properties actually means, go read m17nFont. it's giving required reading bestie 📚

then we have ADJUST-RATIO, which is an integer that says by percentage how much the font-size needs to be adjusted. so like, for example, this here PER-FONT:

((devanagari-cdac) 150)

tells the font handler of the m17n library to open a font that's 1.5 times bigger than the requested size when it opens a font whose registry is devanagari-cdac. iconic behavior honestly 🔥

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈 this one's from Version 1.8.4, dated Mon Sep 25 2023, and it lives its life as mdbFontSize(5). mwah, go read a font spec, ily 💖🎀🦋

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