Hallo, Miller Puckette hat gesagt: // Miller Puckette wrote:
I think that, since font sizes now differ between platforms, it's probably OK to introduce a new, uniform font size as long as it doesn't exceed that of any currently used one by more than about a pixel... and indeed, it will be a huge benefit to get this straightened out at last!
Yep, definitely.
I now had a real look at pd-extended. Some comments: The properties menu for IEMGUIs still explicitly specify names like "Deja Sans ..." or "Helvetica". I think, it would be better to use more general names: "Mono", "Sans Serif" and "Serif". That way it would be easier to map the names to different font faces eventially or when "-typeface X" is used.
Then very much, even with Deja, I would prefer to have a bold typeface back. I find the non-bold fonts hard to read and for my tastes they are too similar in width to the object borders. Btw: the number in number boxes is positioned a little bit to low, not in the center.
_From a quick glance at pd.tk I still don't like, that the font face is hardcoded in many places. I'm tcl-illiterate, but it would be nice to have the fonts defined in just one place. One end goal IMO should be a system similar to the one in Desire Data: Here you can totally change the graphical appearance, from colors to fonts and beyond, by editing a GUI config file. With hardcoded font names everywhere this is porbably harder to realize.
Also after seeing Chun's DD presentation at "make art" last week I fell in love with the Zoom feature of Desire Data: If like me one is sight impaired when in front of a screen (yep, I'm aproaching 40), with current Pd it is necessary to change the font size, which, even with the Deja-font and pd-extended, will still break the layout of a patch. Instead of that, zooming into a patch would be a much better solution for handicapped users.
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