On Sep 25, 2017, at 10:33 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:57:29 +0200
From: Roman Haefeli <reduzent@gmail.com>
To: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Subject: Re: [PD] Object sizing updates
Message-ID: <1506355049.2383.20.camel@gmail.com>
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On Sam, 2017-09-23 at 22:53 +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:

For those of you experiencing issues with object sizing problems with
Pd 0.48, I might have a fix:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/227

There is a test build for newer macs you can try out. It fixes the
wide float and symbol atoms as well as introduces a few things of the
old Pd-extended, including the extended font metrics. I increased the
object vertical margins slightly due to the somewhat tighter spacing
from the metrics and am satisfied the boxes are not too small which
was my main issue with the changing the metrics alone. Feedback on
this would be helpful, especially from those of you on Linux and
Windows.

This is meant as a bug fix for 0.48-1, so no bells and whistles, but
my more complex GUIs now render in GOP again.

Ah, good to know you, or rather your patches, are affected, too :-)

Your changes look beautiful in my eyes. Symbol and float atom are still
one pixel less tall than object and message boxes, but I don't know if
you actually intended to make them the same. Box width is the same as
it was in 0.47/macOS 0.46/Ubuntu 14.04, at least for font size 10. 

Attached is a screenshot of the bugfix/metrics-sizing branch compiled
on macOS 10.11 (Tk 8.6.7) and Ubuntu 16.04 (Tk 8.6.5). Boxes do have
the same dimensions on each platform.

Thanks for your work!