Change font_size name lookup

[scottsilverlabs]

For the function text():

• Change the font_size argument to font_name
• Directly map the name to the directory. So if they select font_name="foo", then use the directory font/foo
• For name aliases, use symlinks. That is,create the directory 3x5, and create a symlink from small -> 3x5. Does pip handle installing symlinks okay? (I think its likely)

[jpsnyder]

Okay, I can do that. Although, how do you want to handle user generated fonts? (if we are supporting that)

[jpsnyder]

Looks like the MANIFEST.in does not support symbolic links.. After doing some research it would involve quite the workaround to work seamlessly. Maybe we can have a defined dictionary of aliases or something similar instead?

[brian-silverman]

Yeah. As simple (and very useable) fix could be to allow files (not directories) in the font directory of the form "foo.lnk", or some such. So in the code, given the user selected font_name="foo", you'd just:

• Try directory "font/foo"
• Else, try file "font/foo.lnk". If it contained a single name, use that as the subdir of the font dir.
• Else, throw exception.

[jpsnyder]

So.. create a different implementation of symbolic links.. Would it be better to do it your way and have separate files for each symbolic link (although can't do .lnk because windows uses that for shortcut files) or should we have a single "aliases" file that the API that uses as a lookup table?

[jpsnyder]

I implement .font files instead of .lnk