On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Did you look at a text file in Pd with this patch? I guess I should have been more clear about where it applies. The Times font only applies to viewing text files in Pd, not to anything else. You cannot change the font size of a text file in Pd. So I spec'ed Times 14 over Courier 12. The font is definitely big enough, and can easily be made bigger if need be. I think that Times works well there because it clearly distinguishes the text files from the patches. Try opening up 2.control.examples/00.INTRO.txt for example. Its a minor change.
It's a big change, if you look at "5.reference/0.INTRO.txt" instead, because all alignment is wrecked there.
The formatting of other included .txt files is wrecked regardless of the font (check the About Pd... txt for example, at least on OSX).
Anyway Times is not really good as a screen font because of its Serifs. It's better to use a Sans Serif font on screen (just take a look at any webpage: Nobody is using Serif fonts there except for the "Print Page" preview.)
I guess its no surprise that this site uses Times:
others: http://harpers.org/ http://www.newyorker.com/
basically, sites oriented towards reading paragraphs, rather than application text, headlines, and blurbs.
If there should be a proportional font in Pd, it should be a kind of Sans Serif font like Helvetica or Arial. (Or better yet one of the nice looking Bitstream fonts.)
The Times font is already used in Pd. Its one of the three options. I just thought it would be helpful to differentiate the txt files from patches in the simplest way possible: using the already included fonts. The whole serif/sans debate just seems like a fad, some decades serifs are more readable, other decades sans. That's a debate I want no part of.
Ultimately, the txt function is Pd is barely used, so if people hate Times, nobody has to use it. I just put it out there, and I am done with the issue.
.hc
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