> 2017-02-15 12:27 GMT-02:00 Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list <pd-list@lists.iem.at>:

A program can essentially either resize fonts to fit hard-coded box sizes, or it can resize boxes to fit the fonts. Pd Vanilla does the latter.

> And Purr Data does the former, right?

For DejaVu Sans Mono, yes. But that's because I hard-coded font-size scaling factors known to work with the four font stacks: Windows,

OSX, old-school sane Gnu, and new-school outlier Gnu.

I'm currently checking for the new-school Gnu fonts by measuring a test-case at startup. That can be revised to find the best fit for an

arbitrary font per box size, but it hasn't been done (or tested) yet.

> I think the first option is obviously safer. This issue is important in Pd as it is a visual programming language, it needs to be consistent

in my opinion, what are the challenges involved in making this change?

The challenge is figuring out if fit_font_into_metrics from pd-gui.tcl is broken. If not, then figuring out why it isn't decipherable

by human beings.

-Jonathan

> cheers