<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If we had a weekend, a few people, and enough different systems, we could probably find a solution.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my thinking, I'm kind of pushing things in steps:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. make pd easier to build on platforms and in the same way</div><div class="">2. have the same font on all platforms</div><div class="">3. introduce the extended sizing (and probably tweak)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We're still working on Step 1 as the auto tools build is not working yet on Windows. I will probably get to that next at some point. I already have plans laid out for Step 2, but this relies on Step 1 working, etc. Having Step 1 means we can much more easily spread out the testing and tweaking to other people.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At the very least, it seems like Tk 8.4 is out on macOS 10.13 so it's a good thing I did the work to update Pd for Tk 8.5 on Mac, even if it does introduce a few wrinkles.</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 11, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Roman Haefeli <<a href="mailto:reduzent@gmail.com" class="">reduzent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Hm, I tested the numbers already in that I took care of getting the<br class="">same box sizes for font size 10 on every platform as before (and<br class="">between platforms). If there are more tests required to not break<br class="">anything, I'm happy to test and report back.<br class=""><br class="">I understand you're in a total different position than me and probably<br class="">feel much more responsibility on your shoulders and thus I understand<br class="">your reluctance. I don't have the skills to fix the issue the "clean"<br class="">way, but I'm willing to invest some resources in this - presumably<br class="">bytesting things - and I have access to Ubuntu 16.04, macOS 10.11 to<br class="">10.12 and Windows 10. If that can help in anyway, I'd be glad.<br class=""><br class="">Roman<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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