On May 18, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:17:34AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: >> Hallo, >> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> Many newbies think that Pd looks very strange. Many people have >>> expressed gratitude for the switch to the normal weight font. >> >> Why not make a vote? Attached are two screenshots, one with Vera >> bold, >> one with Vera normal, both on Linux, both on pd-extended 0.40. >> >> Which do you prefer? >> >> [ ] normal.png >> [ ] bold.png > > I vote for: > > pd -font=[whatever font you like] > > Failing that, I vote for it looking the way that we are used to seeing > it; courier 12 bold. I especially dislike the way Vera looks in these > screen shots. If you're going to use a font like that then I beg > you to > make it anti-aliased and stop my eyeballs from doing backflips.
One thing I forgot to mention: the anti-aliasing comes from Tcl/Tk. I don't think Tcl/Tk 8.4 supports anti-aliasing on GNU/Linux. It does on Mac OS X for sure, and Windows AFAIK. .hc > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. - the hacker ethic _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
