[PD-dev] Re: pixelTANGO & pd-extended

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That would be nice, and pretty easy to do with UNIX's glob.  Its data  
structure is built to do just that.  Windows will probably be a pain  
tho.

I don't think I'll have the time to do this soon tho... I am putting  
it on my TODO.

.hc

On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:00 AM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I proposed some time ago that Pd flags could go to xterm style -asio
> +oss flags to add and remove options that PD would normally run on.  
> This
> gives us a kind of override of options relative to the .pdsettings  
> (bye
> bye .pdrc)
>
> Hans, what if we could give folder_list a list of patterns:
>
> [list /System/Library/Fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/trutype/*/*.ttf <
>  |
> [folder_list] #aka file/match
>
> to give us a concatenated list of both those paths...
>
> That would be really slick... :)
>
> ..b.
>
> Alexandre Quessy wrote:
>> Mac OSX :
>>
>> /System/Library/Fonts
>>
>> But there ain't much fonts there. (about 1 .ttf that seems working)
>>
>> Debian :
>>
>> /usr/share/fonts/trutype/**misc-subdirs...
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TIF
>>
>> If it was through a -fontpath option, a system-wide pdrc would be  
>> nice
>> in /etc/pdrc, let say. Then, we would need a consistent way to
>> override flags in users' .pdrc. (but, isn't the .pdrc deprecated  
>> yet ?
>> ;-))
>>
>> Anyhow, very good idea !
>>
>>
>> aalex
>>
>>
>> On 4/4/06, B. Bogart <ben at ekran.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I guess this is worth a try,
>>>
>>> So where are fonts located on most linux/OSX/windows/etc machines?
>>>
>>> Anyone implimented a font searchpath thing as a PD patch?
>>>
>>> .b.
>>>
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:27 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think it would be worth a little research to see how hard it
>>>>>> would  be
>>>>>> to use the system path.  I guess the tricky part would be  
>>>>>> know  which
>>>>>> platform you are on.  Perhaps its time for a [uname] object.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> do you mean  [operating_system] in guess-where?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why, look at that....  that's it exactly.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
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