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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_5052"><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><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5166"><br></div><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 <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5666">become a public API. And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_6022"><br></div><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><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_6024"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_6120">-Jonathan<br></div></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><div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487605318550_5137">> Anyway before concluding this thread I must said that this year I've been connecting the pref.file to 2 things:</div>
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<div>> Deken : If necessary the pref.file can hold the deken path.for.externals.</div>
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<div>> And most importantly I connected the pref.file cuz Miller announced it this year for Win & Mac.</div>
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<div>> Do you think there's need to add a couple of things to the actual prefs?</div>
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<div id="yiv7932252002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487602173738_4329">Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences? That is information
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<div id="yiv7932252002yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487602173738_4405">> Deken path?</div>
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