On 02/20/2017 07:26 PM, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
Ok, if that's the case then I would suggest not to add a user-facing font-metrics option.
+1
i'd also like to add, that we should not (ever) add an option with the sole purpose of working around bugs. if you consider the slightly different font sizes a bug (and i gather you do), then we should find a solution to the bug itself (rather than provide an easy way to make everything worse). if you only consider them an annoyance, you might want to investigate in creating a gui-plugin that fixes the problem. (it seems that currently, Pd-gui signals the font metrics back to Pd-core, which will (among other things) trigger Pd-core to load it's libraries. it might be worth entangling *that*)
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