[PD] Font weirdness with 0.43test

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Fri Aug 20 20:10:59 CEST 2010


You can choose your own fonts, but only from command line flags, or by  
editing the Tcl files.

.hc

On Aug 20, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:

> btw I remember to ask myself why pd do not allow the user to choose
> his/her own fonts... why?
>
> 2010/8/20 Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> attached screenshot shows a comparison of the font, I use with Pd on
>> Debian Squeeze: FreeMono. I start Pd with "-font-face FreeMono", no  
>> size
>> or weight options.
>>
>> My patches usually use size 10 as default, this also is used on the
>> screenshot. It seems that 0.43 scales the font to be one step too  
>> small.
>> 0.42 has about the same size as the GVim I also show as comparison.
>>
>> Is this expected behaviour or amy I doing something wrong?
>>
>> I can fix the size difference by adding "-font-size 12" to the  
>> startup
>> options or probably by some tcl hacking, but actually I was hoping,  
>> that
>> the GUI reqrite would finally allow me to avoid using startup options
>> for basic GUI configuration and behave more like normal software.
>>
>> Ciao
>> --
>> Frank
>>
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