[PD] [text3d] & video subtitling in Pd

[J Oliver]

This seems like it will work well. 
Anybody can recommend a good spanish font?

bes,t

J

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Jaime Oliver
www.jaimeoliver.pe
jo2357 at columbia.edu
Columbia University






On Oct 6, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Py Fave wrote:

> check this .
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> i didn't write it but  used it with success .
> it needs some tweaks ,but it works
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> sorry i don't know who wrote this
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> 2012/10/6 Ed Kelly <morph_2016 at yahoo.co.uk>:
>> 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!
>> http://sharktracks.co.uk/
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: J Oliver <jaime.oliver2 at gmail.com>
>> To: PD list <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Sent: Saturday, 6 October 2012, 0:54
>> Subject: [PD] [text3d] & video subtitling in Pd
>> 
>> Dear all,
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Hard to say if this is a Pd problem or text3d problem or both.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> anyone has any idea of some workarounds? (or if i'm missing something
>> evident?)
>> 
>> best,
>> 
>> J
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