Phil and everyone,

> I do think you are correct, a more generic (and lower-level solution)
> would be more appropriate--and in the locations you've identified.
> Presently, I do not yet have the skills to make such a change, as the
> mysteries of how Squeak renders to the screen (especially how Morphic
> renders to the screen on top of all the BitBlt / Display stuff from
> earlier Smalltalks).

  It is sometimes mystery to me, too.

> One observation: Display>>form doesn't do much work, but
> Display>>composeForm does, and (in the case of Morphic) it strangely first
> creates a TextMorph of the text, gets an image from that with a depth of
> 1, then builds a ColorForm on which it draws that image.  Don't know why
> all of that work--seems like just one really good rendering on an
> appropriately configured form or canvas should have done the trick, but,
> as mentioned, I don't yet grok Squeak's rendering architecture.

  Me neither, but take a look at my "version 4" code on SqueakMap.  It
supports this, as well as other faces (bold, italic, and bold
italic).  I tested it in MVC projects and it seems working, too.

-- Yoshiki