[PD-dev] small font/display change

[B. Bogart]

Times!? please no!

Keep courier or use a sans-serif like helvetica.

I think switching to tk font specs {helvetica -12 bold| would be better
than sticking with the funny X11 font spec.

My 2cents.

Times is just too fine for small text. sans-serif is the way to go.

b>

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> I would like to propose a minor font change to make text more readable.
>  First, in the console, make the text regular rather than bold.  Usually
> regular fonts are used in terminal windows and bold is only for highlights.
>
> -text .printout.text -relief raised -bd 2 -font
> -*-courier-bold--normal--12-* \
> +text .printout.text -relief raised -bd 2 -font
> -*-courier-regular--normal--12-* \
>
> Secondly, courier is not a font meant for reading text, but rather
> terminals and things like that.  So I propose changing the default font
> in text windows (not used very often) to Times Regular 14 point.
>
> -    text $name.text -relief raised -bd 2 -font
> -*-courier-bold--normal--12-* \
> +    text $name.text -relief raised -bd 2 -font
> -*-times-regular--normal--14-* \
>
> Attached is a diff patch file.  This should work on all platforms since
> those fonts are already used within Pd.  Lastly is a Mac OS X only
> change:  setting minimun line size for anti-aliasing.  If set to 1 or 0,
> then every line will be anti-aliased.  While this makes connections and
> circles in [bng] and such look really good, it makes boxes and messages
> look out of focus.  Setting this to 2 makes it so only the thick audio
> rate connections are anti-aliased
>
> +     set tk::mac::CGAntialiasLimit 2
>
> .hc
>
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