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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]>: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/li >> stinfo/pd-list >> >> >
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