hi there,
if it's about space usage ... maybe it would be useful to add a width feature to select bold, narrow, whatever ... current default is bold ...
now my growing apple thinking gets into the way of linux thinking :-)
even if you introduce the font+fontsize+fontstyle startup parameters we still need reasonable defaults. handing problems over to the end user is no solution, imho. i am not against that but it does not solve the problem - that seems to be that people are not satisfied with courier (although i personally start to like it more and more - it is quite unique (on the mac))
actually there are some options:
- have it look different on different systems (tahoma is not standard
on mac, so we would need a different default font there)
- have it look the same + use system fonts (that is the current state.
i do not know any fonts beside arial and courier that are standard on win+linux+mac)
- use a specific pd-font. frank's looks quite good i think. this font
has to be free as in beer. although most systems store fonts in specific places there are a lot of apps that come with their own fonts. think of computer games.
maybe we should vote? tomorrow :-)
lg martin
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