[PD] [text3d] & video subtitling in Pd

[Ed Kelly]

I use [text3d] a lot for my Gemnotes notation project.
Since it uses TTF fonts, I use fontforge to organise and re-organise my symbols so that they are all accessible from within Pd's allowed messages.
With subtitles, it's fairly certain you're dealing with language and so you're not going to need symbols like [,~,^ etc, so copying the glyphs for comma, and your Spanish letters to these symbols and substitute for them in the text input.
The input would look messy, but the output is what matters...
Ed

Gemnotes-0.2: Live music notation for Pure Data, now with dynamics!
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> From: J Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2012, 0:54
>Subject: [PD] [text3d] & video subtitling in Pd
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>Dear all, 
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>I was working on a subtitling patch for videos, however, I encountered two problems to which I hope there is a solution, as solving them would make it work.
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>Hard to say if this is a Pd problem or text3d problem or both. 
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>PROBLEM 1: commas cannot be written in [text3d]
>Since [text3d] is fed messages, if I write a message like:
>"yes I am sure, however"
>The message will be come two messages and the comma of course won't be displayed.
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>PROBLEM 2: spanish accents like á é í ó ú have some troubles in [text3d].
>If I write "avión", the accent will be there without a problem and it will display: "avión".
>But if I write "avió", the "ó" will not be there entirely and it will only display: "avi".
>So what seems to be happening is that the accented vowel needs to be inside a word, but if it is by itself or at the end of a word it will not be displayed at all.
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>anyone has any idea of some workarounds? (or if i'm missing something evident?)
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>best,
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>J
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