[PD] (wip) Preferences file.

[Lucas Cordiviola]

>But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to become a public API.  And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works:

Ok, so then a new flag?

-fontmetrics <name> … vanilla or extended

Or something like that?



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From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 4:08 PM
To: Lucas Cordiviola; pd-list at lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file.

>> Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences?  That is information that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.



> Look here:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-&-comparisons



> Here it is shown the diff between Vanilla & extended:
http://lucarda.com.ar/x/Van-Ext-diff.jpg


> There are chances that you may prefer one of these 2 settings, depending on your amount of patches done on Vanilla or Extended.

I get that.  But you are taking an internal format passed between the GUI and the core and exposing it to
become a public API.  And that format virtually guarantees that users will misunderstand how it works:

"I told Pd to make the 12pt font 7x15 pixels, but it is isn't 7x15.  Is this a bug?"

-Jonathan

> Of course this could be set outside of the preferences on a separate file.

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