On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:42:06 +0000, Rhodri James wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:08:01 -0000, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:48:47 +0000, Cousin Stanley wrote: >> >>> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>>> I have a tkinter application under Python 2.6 which is shows text in >>>> a giant font, about twenty(?) times larger than expected. [...] > In this case I think you're missing a hyphen. Try > > titlefont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-180-*'
Thanks for the suggestion, but xlsfonts returns the same eight font files regardless of whether the hyphen is there or not. (I wouldn't expect otherwise, since the font matching treats * as a text wildcard and will let it cross field boundaries.) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list