On 07/04/2019 12:38, oliver wrote:
the readme.txt on your linked github page also mentions the flag "-font-face" with an exmaple (-font-face "Zapf Dingbats") which, as i wrote, produces a crash on my system (Ubuntu LTS 18) because PD (or is it Tcl/Tk ?) can't interpret the quotes.
so far i didn't succeed in loading ANY font in PD, its name containing white spaces or not. so the fallback was always DVSM (not "Courier" as the readme says)
Dear Oliver
I am no expert, but after your first email, I played around a bit. I am on Ubuntu 18.10 running Pd 0.48.2, and I cannot reproduce your problem. I tried:
pd -font-face "Celeste Small"
Pd started OK, and Celeste Small was loaded as the default font (see screenshot — just a labelled canvas).
I tried disabling DejaVu Sans Mono (in Font Manager) and after disabling some DVSM alternates, I eventually got the Pd console message "WARNING: Font family 'DejaVu Sans Mono' not found, using default (courier)", so that really does seem to be the font of last resort.
If your system doesn’t have Courier installed — mine doesn’t — Pd will (it seems) load whatever alternate your fontconfig specifies (fc-match is your friend here), but it will still say it is using Courier. (The same goes for the alternate font choices, Helvetica & Times.)
Pd seems to rely on the OS to find fonts for it, so I don’t think you need to worry about search paths & creating extra folders. If you want to play around with renamed fonts, dropping them into ~/.local/share/fonts should be fine.
If your system does have a problem with whitespace or quotes, remember that you are giving -font-face the font’s name, not the font’s file name. You could edit the font info in a font editor (e.g. FontForge), but it would be easier to create an alias for the font you want to use and to drop the config into ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d (see attachment 30-substitutions.conf, which is plain text).
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, and good luck.
Yours
m
