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Please add dynamic UI font size based on text lenght

Post by aigarslv
Thank you for wonderful job done to ease localization! But there is one remaining problem and many languages have it.
Core of the problem: in different languages same thing has different text length. Now why is that a problem you ask? Well because UI has been based on English language and fixed font size for captions, so where English text looks good in other language (longer text) either partially disappears or some clipping occurs.
What I mean by different text lenght:
English - map
Latvian - karte
Russian - карта
Lithuanian: žemėlapis

Now there of course are several ways of dealing with this issue:

1. Find a shorter word or sentence, if that is not possible
2. Reduce font size and if that fails

try to increase text's field size or maybe find some creative approach. But main issue is - guys please take a look at UI - what can be done, to make different text lengths appear fully in UI.


Thanks and best wishes!
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Post by antigerme
aigarslv wrote:Thank you for wonderful job done to ease localization! But there is one remaining problem and many languages have it.
Core of the problem: in different languages same thing has different text length. Now why is that a problem you ask? Well because UI has been based on English language and fixed font size for captions, so where English text looks good in other language (longer text) either partially disappears or some clipping occurs.
What I mean by different text lenght:
English - map
Latvian - karte
Russian - карта
Lithuanian: žemėlapis

Now there of course are several ways of dealing with this issue:

1. Find a shorter word or sentence, if that is not possible
2. Reduce font size and if that fails

try to increase text's field size or maybe find some creative approach. But main issue is - guys please take a look at UI - what can be done, to make different text lengths appear fully in UI.


Thanks and best wishes!
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Post by foxitrot
The devs should be more frequently be considering
aigarslv wrote:3. try to increase text's field size...
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Post by petervdveen
Also in the report-pop ups the maximum text size is smaller then in the reports list.
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