[PD-dev] pd's font type

[Reini Urban]

Frank Barknecht schrieb:
> Reini Urban hat gesagt: // Reini Urban wrote:
 >>
>>I'd prefer Tahoma if its easy...
>>Aligment issues are less important than aesthetics for me. Tahoma is 
>>very efficient in it's space usage. (The narrow counterpart of the 
>>monstrous Verdana)
> 
> Both don't come with Linux and they are not allowed to be
> redistributed (see http://tinyurl.com/4wyt8) anymore (see
> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ on that special "hack" for Verdana,
> but not Tahoma).

yep. Verdana is the bad example.

> The change Tim commited just will allow you to specify the font to use
> yourself, so you don't have to use Verdana, and I can carry on to use
> Courier (or "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Bold 10", which is my favourite
> fixed width font and it's a free as in speech font.).

Thanks. Bitstream Vera and Tahoma are my favorites.
We could even add "Bitstream Vera" to the distro. I added it also to my 
libming package.

And maybe some time add some metrics calculation code.
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Reini Urban
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