[PD] Vote your font! [was: fonts on GNU/Linux]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On May 18, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:17:34AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Many newbies think that Pd looks very strange.  Many people have
>>> expressed gratitude for the switch to the normal weight font.
>>
>> Why not make a vote? Attached are two screenshots, one with Vera  
>> bold,
>> one with Vera normal, both on Linux, both on pd-extended 0.40.
>>
>> Which do you prefer?
>>
>>  [ ] normal.png
>>  [ ] bold.png
>
> I vote for:
>
> pd -font=[whatever font you like]
>
> Failing that, I vote for it looking the way that we are used to seeing
> it; courier 12 bold. I especially dislike the way Vera looks in these
> screen shots. If you're going to use a font like that then I beg  
> you to
> make it anti-aliased and stop my eyeballs from doing backflips.

One thing I forgot to mention:  the anti-aliasing comes from Tcl/Tk.   
I don't think Tcl/Tk 8.4 supports anti-aliasing on GNU/Linux. It does  
on Mac OS X for sure, and Windows AFAIK.

.hc

>
> Best,
>
> Chris.
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