[PD] macOS default font now Menlo

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

BIG THANKS

Em seg., 16 de nov. de 2020 às 07:27, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Howdy all,
>
> As Miller has finalized 0.51-3, I wanted to let macOS people know that
> Pd's default font on the platform has been changed to Menlo.
>
> This is a short note to preempt a flood of "why does Pd suddenly display
> 0s with a slash instead of a dot!" messages.
>
> # Menlo?!
>
> Menlo is a system font included with macOS back to 10.6 and is actually
> based on Bitstream Sans Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono, so there should be no
> sizing or positioning issues with existing patches. I find it actually
> slightly more readable.
>
> See font difference screenshots here:
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/988#issuecomment-727617574
>
> # Why?
>
> There is an issue for macOS 10.15+ with how DejaVu Sans Mono is
> loaded/displayed on the Tk canvas to where Pd renders the font "too thin"
> within object & messages. It doesn't affect functionality except for most
> selection being off and objects have an inordinate amount of trailing space.
>
> Full Github discussion here:
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/988
>
> I spent some time trying to find if it was a problem a mac setting or a
> bug with Tk. It may indeed be the latter but it will take time to make a
> good bug report upstream. In the meantime, I found that simply using a
> system font renders fine and also found that Menlo thankfully matches very
> close to DejaVu Sans Mono.
>
> I am a bit disappointed to drop the "one front on all platforms" approach,
> but this is a pretty good alternative to "let's hold up a bug fix relates
> for an inordinate amount of time" (which most contributors don't have
> anyway).
>
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