Fontsets

Portable Presenter has a few fontsets, which are used to show text on the slides.

Fontsets are not optimally implemented (yet). It is only tested on UNIX with default fonts, and not on other platforms. The following fonts are intended to start with:

Portable Tk fonts,
Scalable X11 fonts,
Big-fonts, (not implemented yet)
TrueType fonts. (not implemented yet)
Unicode. (not implemented yet)

Font-handling is too primitive. I hope someone is able to help on this point: how do you layout Japanese, Chinese, and such?

General Fontset Options

All fontset share these options:

-rawFontSizes => [ geometry, size, ... ]

Fontsizes are specified for a screen with the size of the first value of the rawFontSizes list (for instance `1280x1024').

When the show starts, and the -fontSizes option is not specified, the actual screen size is determined, and all fontsizes from the rawFontSizes list are scaled.

-fontSizes => [ size, ... ]

You can use this to overrule the fontsize scaling of raw-fontsizes. This option should not be used, unless...

-fontLabels => [ string, ... ]

Names of the defined fonts. The names are related to the values in the fontSizes list. The default font-labels are: pico, micro, tiny, small, normal, large, big, huge, massive, giant. The default size is normal.

In the markup formatter, you can use these names when specifying a font size, e.g.:

   <P SIZE=tiny>this is a footnote</P>

-fixedFont => string

Name of the font to be used for the teletype characters. The possible values are fontset-dependent, so have a look at those pages.

-proportionalFont => string

Name of the font to be used for the normal characters. The possible values are fontset-dependent, so have a look at those pages.