[PD-dev] Reminder Pd-devel IRC meeting Feb 13 (tomorrow)
PSPunch
shima at pspunch.com
Sun Feb 15 14:19:38 CET 2009
Ooops, I spoke too soon about the fonts...
Tcl/Tk supports anti-aliased fonts on X windows with version 8.5 which
after updating to, Pd started up with menu fonts closer to the system's
style. (My Ubuntu 8.04 originally had some version in the 8.4 line.)
--
David Shimamoto
> Hans,
>
>
> Just an update to the chat on IRC,
>
>
> The message pack in Japanese worked right out of the box.
>
> Here's a screen shot.
> http://pspunch.com/pd/pd-devel_jp.png
>
>
> --
> OT,
>
> Unfortunately there are very few non-proprietary Japanese fonts that an
> average user considers reasonably beautiful, which I imagine users of
> other Asian charsets may relate to. What individuals configure for their
> desktop is often where they've settled after a trial and error figuring
> what suites them best and would be nice to see them in tk menus as well.
>
>
> The following quoted from
> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M41
>
> ---- Begin quote ----
>
> X Windows
> All valid X font names, including those listed by xlsfonts(1), are
> available.
>
> MS Windows
> The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's
> style defaults.
>
>
> Mac OS X
> The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's
> style defaults.
>
>
> ---- End quote ----
>
>
> I wonder how difficult it is, or what may break if tk uses system
> default styles for X, or is it a concept unique to Gnome?
>
>
> Just a something I would like to add to the veeeeeery bottom of the wish
> list.
>
> --
> David Shimamoto
>
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