New font (5707) choice is a bit problematic
John Pfersich
jp1660 at att.net
Thu Feb 19 21:05:33 UTC 2004
I never have been able to read a 10 point Times-like font. Books are
usually set in 12 point fonts or higher. Why is the default font
made so small?
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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