[PD] Font weirdness with 0.43test

[Bernardo Barros]

nice:
pd -jack -font-face Inconsolata -font-size 12

2010/8/20 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>:
>
> You can choose your own fonts, but only from command line flags, or by
> editing the Tcl files.
>
> .hc
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> On Aug 20, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
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>> 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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