Re: dia fonts

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:25 -0700, Carl Strickland wrote:
> well i really like dia and find it a lot more useful than inkscape. maybe 
> it's just me but dia makes it cake to make simple diagrams like phasors and 
> sine waves. my main peeve right now is the lack of support for font 
> formatting. i'm running dia 0.94 on a debian unstable system and would 
> really like to see support for subscripts and superscripts as well as 
> special characters like greek and such. i could just really use the degree, 
> omega, and a number of other things involved in creating electrical 
> diagrams. also an improvement to the circuit symbols would be nice. there 
> are more and having to go into ChemEng to find a sine voltage source is a 
> little more than i like. again, awesome work, and thanks for your 
> considerations.

I'm sorry to say that this is not coming right away.  To do that, I'll
need to (and I plan to) embed a GtkEntry widget whenever text is being
edited, essentially splitting Dia into two modes.  The yellow highlights
seen around text currently is a precursor that allows me to check that
starting and stopping text editing is done right -- it isn't in all
cases right now, and if I went to the GtkEntry system now there'd be
widgets left or no text entry happening.

As for the improvement to the circuit symbols rather than getting
objects from ChemEng, you can use the Sheets & Objects dialog to make
your own sheet with just the things you need (though that dialog is not
without its problems).

-Lars

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