Ah, cool, good to know. That's one of the goals of this Pd-devel effort: to support Tcl/Tk 8.5. Currently, Pd doesn't really work with Tcl/Tk 8.5. On GNU/Linux, the font handling gets messed up, on Mac OS X, Pd doesn't even start with 8.5.
.hc On Feb 15, 2009, at 8:19 AM, PSPunch wrote: > > Ooops, I spoke too soon about the fonts... > > > Tcl/Tk supports anti-aliased fonts on X windows with version 8.5 which > after updating to, Pd started up with menu fonts closer to the > system's > style. (My Ubuntu 8.04 originally had some version in the 8.4 line.) > > > -- > David Shimamoto > > >> Hans, >> >> >> Just an update to the chat on IRC, >> >> >> The message pack in Japanese worked right out of the box. >> >> Here's a screen shot. >> http://pspunch.com/pd/pd-devel_jp.png >> >> >> -- >> OT, >> >> Unfortunately there are very few non-proprietary Japanese fonts >> that an >> average user considers reasonably beautiful, which I imagine users of >> other Asian charsets may relate to. What individuals configure for >> their >> desktop is often where they've settled after a trial and error >> figuring >> what suites them best and would be nice to see them in tk menus as >> well. >> >> >> The following quoted from >> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/font.htm#M41 >> >> ---- Begin quote ---- >> >> X Windows >> All valid X font names, including those listed by xlsfonts(1), >> are >> available. >> >> MS Windows >> The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's >> style defaults. >> >> >> Mac OS X >> The following fonts are supported, and are mapped to the user's >> style defaults. >> >> >> ---- End quote ---- >> >> >> I wonder how difficult it is, or what may break if tk uses system >> default styles for X, or is it a concept unique to Gnome? >> >> >> Just a something I would like to add to the veeeeeery bottom of the >> wish >> list. >> >> -- >> David Shimamoto >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-dev mailing list >> Pd-dev@iem.at >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > Pd-dev@iem.at > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list Pd-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev