Thanks Dan for this comprehensive reply. > Pd tries to use the same standard font across all platforms as of around 0.48 > or 0.49. In 0.52, we now included the italic and bold versions of DejaVu Sans > Mono as well.
Highly appreciated. > The result is that if you make a patch on one system with the standard font > and open it on another with the same or ver similar (macOS)-sized font, the > rendering should be very close. It was close enough indeed, except on Ubuntu 18 which makes a complete mess. It might be on my side too. > There is also a text patch with all the GUIs you can use to compare on > different systems: > Help->Browser : Pure Data/7.stuff/tools/sizingtest.pd This is good to know - I now have Parallels running with Windows10 and Ubuntu20 in MacOS so I can see in realtime what they look like. > I would also ask Alex and the cyclone team as they have deployed a standard > help-file format and pushed for some of the required changes in this area. Oh that is a great pointer - I’ll try to reach for him as I’d like to get it right (or at least get challenged by their requests :) - I presume they opened a project/pr on GitHub? I’ll check them out. > Oh, one thing I've forgotten about: the default font is bold on Windows and > Linux which normal weight on macOS. I read about it and it looks a bit different but not enough to cause issues with Menlo/DejaVu Thanks again for the extensive response!
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