hi miller,
I'm not sure if this has been reported before but I found the following in pd-0.38 and earlier versions:
If you try to change the font size of patches with subpatches and not all successive ones in the hierarchy are visible pd crashes. example patch is attached.
take care,
x
p.s.: I also changed the spigot help file according to the diff I sent it's here -> http://test.pilot.fm/pd/misc/