Am 18. Jänner 2021 20:24:27 MEZ schrieb Alexandre Torres Porres porres@gmail.com:
Em dom., 17 de jan. de 2021 às 23:12, Alexandre Torres Porres < porres@gmail.com> escreveu:
Ok, I know it's coming from somewhere else, and that's not the point. Maybe a better question is to just make sure that this indeed happens (that the Pd will look elsewhere in your fonts to see if you have a bass clef or whatever else is missing in DejaVu). I
Pd doesn't do anything like that. in fact, most applications don't do anything like that. fonts are a *hard* problem, that's why these problems are typically solved centrally (on the toolkit level (eg Tcl/Tk) or even lower).
there are of course exceptions to this: eg Gem handles the fonts on its own (using a library; I'm not crazy enough attempting to handle fonts myself).
as a rule of thumb: if you don't specify the font-file directly (eg /path/to/DejaVuSans-Mono.ttl
) but rather the font name (eg "DejaVu Sans Mono"), then you are working with a high level interface that will use multiple fonts to render a glyph.
price question: when selecting a font for Pd (using the -font-face
cmdline option), do you specify the font by filename, or by the font-name?
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