[PD] pd-0.40.3 anti-aliased (screenshot)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I can understand not wanting dependencies, but you can include  
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono with Pd.  It's a free font.  It would just  
be one file, two if you want normal and bold.

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/#Final_Bitstream_Vera_Fonts

It would be MUCH easier to deal with than say, ASIO, portaudio,  
portmidi, FFTW, etc.

.hc

On Sep 25, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:

> Well, I'm trying to avoid dependences on stuff that isn't absolutely
> guaranteed to be there in the OS, so that Pd can work out-of-box  
> without
> running installation scripts.
>
> Also, even though the sizes are apparently predictable with lucida  
> etc.,
> they are quite uncomfortably different from what Pd currently gets, at
> least from the tests I've made.
>
> cheers
> M
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:44:41PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>>
>> If you set tk scaling to a fixed value, and use a font that is known
>> to be installed (i.e. included with Pd), then the font sizes quite
>> reliable in terms of pixel sizes, at least in my tests.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>> On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
>>
>>> The problem I'm having is that there seems to be no reliable way to
>>> get
>>> a text font of a desired size using the Tk font primitives.  In
>>> practice
>>> you can get a fixed-width font with a particular pixel width, but  
>>> then
>>> the heights vary widely.  If I simply fixed the height myself  
>>> from Pd,
>>> it would be much easier to get fonts to fit patches.
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> M
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 12:55:07PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Miller wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is why I'm thinking about what I call the nuclear option:
>>>>> separating all text into separate lines
>>>>
>>>> It's like the Qu?b?cois nucular family blowing up. It's proof that
>>>> QC has
>>>> WMD. Jean Cr?tin once said: ?Pourquoi acheter des carabines ? r?p?
>>>> tition
>>>> et de l'armement nucl?aire pour s'amuser? C'est dangereux! Et
>>>> quand c'est
>>>> dans la maison, bien il peut y avoir un enfant qui se sert de ?
>>>> a, ...?
>>>> (http://www.mef.qc.ca/audio/10vag.wav). Nowadays in QC, couples
>>>> prevent
>>>> divorce by simply not getting married
>>>> (http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/09/13/156634.html).
>>>>
>>>>> and controlling the vertical spacing from within Pd.  I don't
>>>>> wanna do
>>>>> it, but it might be the only way out.
>>>>
>>>> Out of what?... first define what you are trapped into. You are
>>>> not bound
>>>> to Courier fonts any more than you are strapped to a typewriter.
>>>>
>>>>  _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...
>>>> | Mathieu Bouchard - t?l:+1.514.383.3801, Montr?al QC Canada
>>>
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