[Inkscape-devel] Re: Font size after scaling?

Thanks, that will be great. However, taking it just a bit further :-). Scaling the text varies the height/width/both. The font size refers to the height. Do you propose also indicating the width changes also? I can see that this might be tricky since for any size change the resultant width could be greater/lesser than the uniformly scaled text width. On the other hand none of the other drawing programs seems to do this and it might be a small feather in our cap or perhaps a barb.

No. Any transform will be factored into two compenents: uniform scale and everything else. The uniform scale will be achieved by scaling the font size, everything else will still be applied as transform= attribute as before. The visible result will be the same.