BIG THANKS Em seg., 16 de nov. de 2020 às 07:27, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> 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). > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com > robotcowboy.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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