[PD] rendering pd patches outside pd

hello "pudists?",

i'm tinkering on a pd-patch-to-svg thing* for web-browsers and ran to couple show-stoppers with pd patches (when used outside pd).

1. a pd-patch has no info how many in/out ports an element has.

i guess a "better" workaround could be a "cheat-list", but that would not work with "dynamic" inlets/outlets, right? what do you think about adding inlet+outlet port counts in the pd patch file?

2. a pd-patch position/sizes are "hard-coded" to font size.

i guess its inevitable to not, right? what do you think about adding an official font (and size?) for pd? (that could then be included in pd and elsewhere)

or other solutions? or is this not "worth" the "trouble"? (its just for fun, and i got plenty of other fun ideas;)

cheerio .oskude

• https://github.com/oskude/pd-svg

ps. been a whiiile since i last used pd, so excuse me if i forgot/missed something related/important.