Note-taking Editor - Font Size

[Dave Thompson]

Hi,

I want to enlarge the font size of the text displayed in the Note-taking editor. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,

Dave

[oaubert]

Hi

There is currently no simple preference to achieve this. I can implement that for the next release. In the meantime, there are 2 hackish ways of setting the font size.

1. Permanently, with side-effects :

Create or edit the configuration file for gtk (.gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory, see http://amitp.blogspot.com/2005/09/font- ... ndows.html for details) and insert the following content :

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style "big-font" {
font_name = "arial 24"
}
class "GtkTextView" style "big-font"


and start Advene. The setting is permanent, with the side-effect that it applies to any TextView widget in the application.

2. Temporarily, without side-effects :

• Open the transcribe view
• Open the python evaluator window (control-e shortcut)
• Type the following commands in the evaluator, validating each line with Control-Return (adapt the 1.5 factor to your wish):
  

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  f=transcribe.textview.get_pango_context().get_font_description()
f.set_size(int(f.get_size() * 1.5))
transcribe.textview.modify_font(f)


  
  

A simple view preference will be available in future Advene releases.

Olivier

[Dave Thompson]

Olivier,

I chose the first option and it works fine. I set the font size to 12 and that is great for me...that is so much easier on my eyes. I'm using Windows XP; so I had to do a "save as" in Notepad to create the ".gtkrc-2.0" file name as the note below the workaround suggested.

This is such a neat program...thanks you guys for creating it.

And thanks so much for your help.

Dave