Re: [Rails-devel] Push request: Correction bundle (Precise token label positioning, initial map image display, 1856 map)

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Frederick:
First I have to say I like the new zooming options and your new background 
maps. I still have to apologize that I forgot to add a thanks to the latest 
release message (however added you to the Wikipedia changelog).

On the label size:
Regardless of line breaks or not, maybe a simple minimum font size would help.

Currently all other labels (coordinates and/or costs) do not scale at all, 
which has the advantage that even at smaller zooms they stay readable.

if one still wants some scaling even at smaller size is the following: Define 
a threshold size. Below that font size the labels do not scale linearly 
anymore but with an exponential less than one (e.g. square-root).

Stefan


On Monday, January 02, 2012 12:45:31 pm Erik Vos wrote:
> Yes, I also had concluded that a line break (option 3) would be best. But
> that will not simplify calculations...
> In the end, we might still want to have SVG tokens.
> 
> Erik.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frederick Weld [mailto:fre...@go...]
> > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:43 AM
> > To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> > Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Push request: Correction bundle (Precise token
> > label positioning, initial map image display, 1856 map)
> > 
> > I think the discussion could be reduced to the following question:
> > "How would an end-user want the NYNH token to be displayed?"
> > 
> > Possible options I could think of would be:
> > 
> > (1) In a font the height of which matches the token size.
> > = logic prior to the patch
> > --> The label "NYNH" by far exceeds the right bound of the token.
> > 
> > (2) Auto-size the font so that the label always perfectly fits the token
> 
> size.
> 
> > = logic applied in the patch
> > --> The label "NYNH" is too small to be readible (on small resolutions)
> > 
> > (3) Enter line break between NY and NH and applied (2) to the resulting
> 
> label.
> 
> > --> New company attribute ("tokenLabel") to define this
> > 
> > Given a second thought, I think option (3) would be the best option.
> > 
> > To all: What would you prefer (including other options not listed here)?
> 
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