[GRASS-dev] figureing out fonts - part 3 correction

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > Further testing and looks like d.text DOES respect GRASS_FONT settings
> > 
> > This leaves only d.label
> 
> d.labels is only a conduit. It works using the font given in labels file
> and is not subject to local override. Choose the font you want at the
> v.label step.
> 
> I guess we could change it to look the other way on that if the labels
> file is using the default, "font: standard".
> 
> 
> currently do_labels.c has:
> 
> #define STANDARD_FONT "romans"
> ...
> if (sscanf (text, "%*s %s", font) != 1
> 	||  !strcmp (font, "standard"))
>     strcpy (font, STANDARD_FONT);
> 
> we could change that hardcoded "romans", but it needs to be done
> explicitly as other previous labels may have changed the font to
> something specific already. (different labels in the same file can
> use different fonts)  How to do *string = {G|R}_get_current_font();
> rather than just trusting the current state?

There is no R_get_current_font(). Nor for any of the other persistent
state (line width, text size, text rotation, current point, current
colour, maybe others).

But that's not what d.labels does at present; "standard" selects
"romans" rather than the current font at module startup (i.e. that
selected by d.font). In that regard, the corresponding fix would be
e.g.:

	const char *std_font;
	std_font = getenv("GRASS_FT_FONT");
	if (!std_font)
		std_font = getenv("GRASS_FONT");
	if (!std_font)
		std_font = "romans";

We should probably kill one of GRASS_FONT/GRASS_FT_FONT now that there
are no longer separate stroke/freetype fonts.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>