[PD] Font weirdness with 0.43test

[Miller Puckette]

I don't know how to do this in a way that's portable across platforms...
this has been a huge unsolved problem for years :)

Miller

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 01:58:30PM -0300, Bernardo Barros wrote:
> btw I remember to ask myself why pd do not allow the user to choose
> his/her own fonts... why?
> 
> 2010/8/20 Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > attached screenshot shows a comparison of the font, I use with Pd on
> > Debian Squeeze: FreeMono. I start Pd with "-font-face FreeMono", no size
> > or weight options.
> >
> > My patches usually use size 10 as default, this also is used on the
> > screenshot. It seems that 0.43 scales the font to be one step too small.
> > 0.42 has about the same size as the GVim I also show as comparison.
> >
> > Is this expected behaviour or amy I doing something wrong?
> >
> > I can fix the size difference by adding "-font-size 12" to the startup
> > options or probably by some tcl hacking, but actually I was hoping, that
> > the GUI reqrite would finally allow me to avoid using startup options
> > for basic GUI configuration and behave more like normal software.
> >
> > Ciao
> > --
> > Frank
> >
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