[PD] Question regarding the font of Pd-0.48

[Zack Lee]

Hi Alexandre.
Thank you so much for your explanation.
I think it is a good idea to adopt Pd Extended's font metrics since I
believe most of existing externals' help files are designed based on it.
I really hope this can be fixed before the stable release of Pd-0.48.

Zack

2017-07-30 0:00 GMT+09:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> HI Zack, it turns out that has many issues with things looking not the
> same for Mac/Linux/Windows, and this has been discussed and brought up in
> this list. But not all has been taken care yet. For Mac, the new Pd, so
> far, was changing things one way or another, and the way things changes in
> 0.48-test5 is not as bad as the first test releases :)
>
> One of the issues is that Pd didn't have the same font for all systems,
> now it does (it's "Deja Vu"). There were also other changes, a new Tcl/Tk
> update (if I'm not mistaken) and a new way of rendering the fonts for
> retina on the Mac.
>
> The issue you brought up with the documentation may happen not only for
> Cyclone, but any documentation that was designed in Pd Extended, or even
> for Purr Data. So one way to sort this out is adopting Pd Extended's font
> metrics. Dan says he could get a new branch running just to test this.
>
> cheers
>
> 2017-07-29 5:15 GMT-03:00 Zack Lee <cuinjune at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi, I tried Pd-0.48-0test5 today and it looks like the font became wider
>> than the one in 0.47-1.
>>
>> I personally like the change in font but some of my patches I created
>> with 0.47-1 looks a bit dirty and jammed as objects are now wider in 0.48.
>>
>> For example, if you have a cyclone library, you can see [flush]'s help
>> file. You will see some objects are partially overlapped.
>>
>> One can of course fix these patches and make them look nicer again
>> provided that the font won't be changed again soon in the next update.
>>
>> I wonder if the current change in the font is completely fixed until the
>> 0.48 stable release or is there any possibility that it will be changed
>> again?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Zack
>>
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