Re: GNOME HIG: Feedback Wanted

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Lasse Schuirmann
<lasse schuirmann gmail com> wrote:

> > There's no need to clamor for css here - Pango has always provided
> > markup and attributes to do relative font sizes, like this:
> >
> > normal <span font_size="larger">big</span> <span
> > font_size="smaller">small</span>
>
> That's interesting.
>
> The theme uses percentages. I'd assume it allows the designers to more
> accurately tweak the thing. I'd try to use what the theme provides for
> consistency. In any case I'd like to recommend a way for devs to scale text
> relatively.

It seems that pango markup only lets you specify relative sizes in
geometric steps of 1.2. If you want to use arbitrary factors, you
currently have to manually create attributes in code, like this:

pango_attr_scale_new (0.83);