[Lazarus] Lazarus has unique font sizes

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Paul Ishenin wrote:
>> See attached screenshot.
> Lazarus is not a tool for any user - it is a tool only for programmers.

Just because there is an inner technical reason for something, does not mean that needs to be reflected in the user interface.

 
> As an ex-delphi programmer you should know a difference between negative 
> and positive font sizes.

Correct, I am an ex-delphi programmer. I used D5, D6, D7 and Kylix 2 & 3. But to be honest, I have no clue what you are talking about. I have no idea what negative fonts mean - please enlighten me. In the mean time, I'll try and Google for information.

It makes no sense to me. I select the font and size via the GTK2 font dialog, then magically Lazarus changes my 12pt font (from the font dialog) to -12. Then when I select the font size combo dropdown, -12 is the only negative value listed, all other values are positive.

I have never seen any problem (IDE's included) showing negative font values. I'm loading Kylix in a VM session now just to make sure.

Does anybody else excluding Paul know what negative fonts sizes mean? Please answer, I would like to know if I missed something major in my 15+ years of working as a developer.
 
Regards,
 - Graeme -

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