Have you made substantial improvements to comment.c in your fork?

Also, I'm not sure whether that code is trying to match Max's interface or whether it's simply an ad hoc 

approach to getting arbitrary fonts to display and interact in a Pd canvas.  If it's the latter then I don't want to waste time on it.

Another reason for putting it off is that I still haven't figured out a sane approach

to handling arbitrary fonts in a diagram where everything is absolutely positioned. 

In fact I only have a minimally-workable approach to handling a single, mono-

spaced font across platforms.  For example, there was a change somewhere in

the Gnu/Linux font-stack (relatively) recently that renders fonts (or at least

DejaVu Sans Mono) noticeably wider than before.  So Windows, OSX, and

old Gnu/Linux would render a particular line of text sized at "12px" within less

than a single pixel of each other.  The new Gnu/Linux font stack (seen in Ubuntu

16.04 and some recent Arch) rendered the same text about 7 pixels wider.

Worse, the newer Gnu/Linux font stack quantizes the "px" sizes such that the

next smallest size is noticeably smaller.  So in Ubuntu 16.04 I have to compromise

by keeping the object box the same size and having some extra padding at the

end-- otherwise users of that OS could end up tightly spacing their object chains

in ways that cause overlaps on the other platforms.

So... I'd like to get a handle on that mess first, then handling arbitrary font

families-- as in cyclone/comment-- will hopefully be easier and less prone

to bugs.