> Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences?  That is information that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.


Look here:

https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/wiki/Crossplatform-font-metrics-&-comparisons


Here it is shown the diff between Vanilla & extended:
http://lucarda.com.ar/x/Van-Ext-diff.jpg


There are chances that you may prefer one of these 2 settings, depending on your amount of patches done on Vanilla or Extended.

Of course this could be set outside of the preferences on a separate file.


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From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 2:55 PM
To: Lucas Cordiviola; pd-list@lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] (wip) Preferences file.
 
> Ok, Thanx for the detalis.



> Anyway before concluding this thread I must said that this year I've been connecting the pref.file to 2 things:

> Deken : If necessary the pref.file can hold the deken path.for.externals.

> And most importantly I connected the pref.file cuz Miller announced it this year for Win & Mac.

> Do you think there's need to add a couple of things to the actual prefs?

> Font metrics?

Why do you want to add font metrics to the preferences?  That is information
that the GUI toolkit should produce automatically.

-Jonathan

> Deken path?

Salutti,
Lucarda.


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