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proycon / vocage

A minimalistic spaced-repetion vocabulary trainer (flashcards) for the terminal
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Font size #4

Closed uunnxx closed 3 years ago

uunnxx commented 3 years ago

Can we increase font size in this app without changing font size of terminal?

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proycon commented 3 years ago

No, that's one of the inherent limitations of terminal-based applications. The terminal determines the font-size and it is equal for everything that is displayed.

So what I do myself when learning Chinese (I agree the characters are often too small), is simply increase the terminal font size on-the-fly, that works quite well.

liabri commented 2 years ago

I understand this is closed but what if to make up for the small font, the text could be converted to an image and put into the terminal via sixel. I believe a good portion of terminals support sixel and it could be optionally enabled via a flag or something. This would sadly make it impossible to copy the text though.

Not too sure how feasible this is but sounds like a great use for sixel! Maybe the size of the font could be defined in the TSV or with launch commands as some scripts might fit different sizes better.