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<div><i>>But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to </i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>become a public API. And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works:</i></span></div>
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<div>Ok, so then a new flag?</div>
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<div>-fontmetrics <name> … vanilla or extended</div>
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<div>Or something like that?</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 20, 2017 4:08 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lucas Cordiviola; pd-list@lists.iem.at<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file.</font>
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<i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5034">>> Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences? That is information </i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5203" style="font-size:12pt">that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.</i>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5000">> Look here:</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5039">> Here it is shown the diff between Vanilla & extended:</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5202">> There are chances that you may prefer one of these 2 settings, depending on your amount of patches done on Vanilla or Extended.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5684">I get that. But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5837">"I told Pd to make the 12pt font 7x15 pixels, but it is isn't 7x15. Is this a bug?"</div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5054">> Of course this could be set outside of the preferences on a separate file.</div>
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