New font (5707) choice is a bit problematic

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Feb 19 14:04:40 UTC 2004


It is accurate tho. If you use the TextText application and try New  
York 10 you'll see the issue.
Original Squeak uses New York 12, so we never saw the issue.
Is changing the default from 10 to 12 an issue?

Accumon-10 is mono-space btw.

On Feb 19, 2004, at 7:14 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 11:50:12PM -0500, Doug Way wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, at 11:01 PM, Timothy Rowledge wrote:
>>
>>> I just realised that the font chosen by default for the text in
>>> textmorphs etc is a bit of a problem. Try a $1 next to a $l and see  
>>> if
>>> you can tell the difference.
>>
>> These particular characters look okay to me... in a fresh 5707 image
>> that font should be Accuny-10 pt.  The number $1 does look different
>> from a capital $I in that font, pretty much the same as before.  Maybe
>> your text is set to a different font...
>
> I'm seeing the same thing as Tim. Font is Accuny-10, and the lower case
> "el" (Character value: 108) is displaying something that looks  
> identical
> to digit one (Character value: 49). Change the point size to 12 and it
> starts looking OK. Accumon-10 also looks OK. This looks like a bug.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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