[GRASS-user] Horizontal legend font size

[Moritz Lennert]

On 13/08/08 09:42, Hamish wrote:
> Paul Moen wrote:

>> How can I change the size of the text in the legend?
> 
> you need to recompile d.legend with the following patch:
> 
> Index: display/d.legend/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- display/d.legend/main.c     (revision 32734)
> +++ display/d.legend/main.c     (working copy)
> @@ -672,7 +672,7 @@
>             if (!horiz)
>                 txsiz = (int)((y1 - y0) / 20);
>             else
> -               txsiz = (int)((x1 - x0) / 20);
> +               txsiz = (int)((x1 - x0) / 25);
>  
>             /* scale text to fit in window if position not manually set */
>             /* usually not needed, except when frame is really narrow   */
> 
> 
> adjust the divisor to suit. The above patch makes the font super tiny
> for legends which are around 2-3 inches wide, so I am loathe to apply
> it in SVN. Maybe it would be better to make textsize it a fn of width^2
> so the rate of change was not so dramatic.

How about making font and fontsize parameters of d.legend, so that the 
user can adjust ?

Moritz