Hi Danny, yes it should be in the current unit system, like 3.5 will make for a text height of 3.5mm if you have units set to mm.

But that sets the height for a full text cell including things like descenders. If you put in some characters with tails under them like y j g p q, in addition to upper case characters you should probably see the full height more clearly.

This seems to be the standard way that text height is measured for regular font things, like for instance if you set font height in Word to 72 pts (which is 1 inch), it behaves the same way where the height of just the upper case character is not 1 inch, it is the whole character cell including the descender part that is 1 inch high.

But I can see that maybe it would be more useful for MoI's kind of use to control the height of the "ascent" of the font instead of the standard whole font cell.

It is easy for me to switch it over to do that, do you think that would make sense?

- Michael

Hi Michael,

>It is easy for me to switch it over to do that, do you think that would make sense?

It does make sense, I had a look at some other cad packages and the capital and lower case letters take the height ie: if I allocate a text height of 3mm the capital letter characters are at 3mm and same with lower case with tales, lower case y is 3mm but then I was thinking the graphics people would be using point size I think, so I don't know, maybe an option in the moi.ini to which style is preferred.

On the other hand, when MoI eventually has drafting/documentation ability it makes more sense to go with a 3mm input means a 3mm character height.


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Hi Danny, what I think I'll do is just switch it over to set the ascent height for the next v2 beta, I think that will make it behave like you were expecting here.

It's likely that the future annotation / drafting type text tool will be a totally different tool than this current one for making text "objects", and that one would probably stick with the other method for setting the entire cell size since it will be kind of more like word processor text there instead.

- Michael

That's fine Michael, as long as we know how the the text height is expressed.

Thanks

Hi Danny, well even with the new setting it does not mean that every single character that you enter will be of that height - it will depend on the design of the font.

With the new tune-up, the height that you enter will control the distance from the font's baseline to the top of the "EMSquare". The characters of some fonts even with capital letters may not touch the top exactly and may even go above it, those are choices that the font designer has made.

So if you need the final font characters to have a very specific height different than what the font designer intended (as far as fitting within a specific space), you still may need to scale the font to your precise needs.

But anyway with this change I think the basic sizing should be more as you had expected it.

- Michael

Hi Michael,
>The characters of some fonts even with capital letters may not touch the top exactly and may even go above it, those are choices that the font designer has made.

I noticed that in some of the specialty fonts but that's OK, I was referring more to your standard boring fonts.

Thanks again

Hi Michael,

I have a program called 3D Engrave that came with my Roland mill.
For what it's worth, here's how they deal with this in their Preferences.

Hope it's of help, Colin