[GRASS-dev] using system fonts?

[Michael Barton]

Perhaps this is a silly question, but is there any way to use system fonts
in GRASS. Currently, we either need to use a stroke font (the default, ugly)
or specify a path to a Truetype font.

It is quite easy to get system font information (family, name, style, size,
color, etc) from a standard system font dialog in wxPython (and in TclTk
too). Is there some way to pass that information to GRASS so that it will be
the display font. Or could there be a flag/GRASS environmental variable, to
make the default system font the default GRASS font? Then the default could
be changed as desired. Imagine Helvetica/Lucida Grand/Arial as the default
font for legends, bar scales, and the like...

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
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