[PD] pd-extended 0.43 default settings don't load libdir? + font question

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:41 PM, Jacob Lee wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Wilkes  
> <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> #2 - Pd can't find any fonts other than Courier. This might actually
>>> be a tk problem, based on the following tclsh session:
>>> % package require Tk
>>> 8.4
>>> % font families
>>> {fangsong ti} fixed {clearlyu alternate glyphs} {courier 10 pitch}
>>> {open look glyph} {bitstream charter} {song ti} {open look cursor}
>>> newspaper {clearlyu ligature} mincho {clearlyu devangari extra}
>>> {clearlyu pua} dotum clearlyu clean nil {clearlyu arabic} {clearlyu
>>> devanagari} batang {standard symbols l} gothic {clearlyu arabic  
>>> extra}
>>>
>>> That list is short and doesn't include e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono,  
>>> which is
>>> installed on my system via the ttf-dejavu package. I've noticed that
>>> the standard default.pdextended includes
>>> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType on the search path,
>>> and I tried adding /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu to that list
>>> to see if it would help, but no dice. I couldn't figure out from the
>>> code how e.g. $sys_searchpath affects Tcl's font search path. Anyone
>>> have any ideas what could be going wrong?
>>
>> I get fewer fonts recognized under wish8.4 than I do under wish8.5.
>> I just force it to use tcl/tk 8.5 and things seem to look ok.
>>
>
> Awesome, that did the trick. I ran update-alternatives to set
> /usr/bin/wish to be provided by /usr/bin/wish8.5, and now fonts are
> working. Thanks.

Hey Jacob,

Thanks for the bug reports and patches!  For future reference on the  
font topic:
http://puredata.info/docs/faq/on-gnu-linux-the-fonts-are-strange-and-or-too-big-or-small

About libdir, vanilla, etc. this stuff is under development in 0.43.   
There is a new pd/startup/ folder.  Anything in this folder is  
automatically loaded.  Today's build should automatically load libdir,  
pdlua, vanilla/list, vanilla, and extra from pd/startup/

.hc


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