[Lazarus] Lazarus has unique font sizes

Hans-Peter Diettrich DrDiettrich1 at aol.com
Sat Aug 15 16:34:32 CEST 2009


dmitry boyarintsev schrieb:

> What about newcomers?
> Should we say: "Learn Delphi first, then come back here?" :)

That's the current state. Without the Delphi documentation and OH every 
newcomer to Lazarus is definitely lost :-(


> Lazarus has been breaking Delphi backward-compatibility for a long
> time already. It's natural to get rid of negative font heights, no?

Introducing more sophisticated features can mean more work at design 
time. But I agree that the handling of fonts, with regards to baseline 
adjustment and font sizes, could be improved with dedicated properties.

DoDi





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