[PD] test24 box size

[Miller Puckette]

OK... actually I was trying to save a couple of pixels to make everything a
bit more compact.  But it seems this was misguided.

I don't know to what extent one can count on font metrics either... I
suppose I'll just have to try this.

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 01:57:43PM +0200, Krzysztof Czaja wrote:
> hi Andre... and Miller,
> 
> I am getting the same result with out-of-the-box courier font!
> 
> The change in test24 is to have the top margin in object boxes, i.e.
> the top border/text separation (#defined as TMARGIN in g_rtext.c),
> one pixel high, instead of three pixel as in the previous versions.
> Apparently this is an attempt to somehow unify the look of text
> objects, atoms and nbxes...
> 
> Well, what I think is this.  There should be two pixels of top
> margin (an extra pixel for the inlets), and perhaps a bit more
> flexible dealing with the bottom margin in gatoms -- symbol gatom
> need to be spaced just like any text object box (two pixels of
> bottom margin), while number gatoms need to subtract -descent
> value taken from the font metrics and add the 2-pixel margins,
> instead of using full -linespace plus 1-pixel top and 0-pixel
> bottom margins.
> 
> But maybe I should keep quiet, because I have no idea whether one
> can actually rely on values returned by "font metrics" command...?
> 
> Krzysztof
> 
> Andre Schmidt wrote:
> ...
>  > i was designing a minifont for pd [fontmatrix 5x7pixel] as i updated to
>  > pd0.35-test24 i saw this... please, make the boxes how they where !
>  > because (ms)courier font has much empty space [hardcoded] over the font
>  > it's not so noticable as with this font...
>