Jordan Brown

Would anybody think that `height=...` or `h=...` was going to yield a 3D object?

I don't really have much to add to what @adrianVmariano said. About the Wikipedia article: I don't think that the article really contradicts other sources; rather, I think it's (over)simplified...

It's not necessary or appropriate to bring units into the definition of OpenSCAD behavior. Other programs have units, so to some extent we need to discuss them, but what are...

>I'm not heavily pushing for unitifying, but if it is unitless, then the text(size=) is in size units, whatever they happen to be ATM. The whole premise of this issue,...

No, again, the issue is independent of units. In other applications, when you request a size of 100 you get A-Z that are approximately 70, whether you make that request...

Thoughts on each of those: * units - opens a huge can of worms * type / type size / tsize - OK, though we haven't used the word "type"...

I can't say that I like the one-letter Xsize variants - tsize/fsize.

@UBaer21: just so we're all on the same page, can you give us the program that generated that image?

With respect to @adrianVmariano's example... on my Windows system, I don't have Droid Sans Fallback, but I see the same effect with font = "Microsoft JhengHei:style=Normal";

This is a topic that comes up once or twice a year. At a super high level, mostly the answer is that OpenSCAD is designed around a number of principles...