[V3dot10] Font woes

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

El 9/13/07 1:15 AM, "Jerome Peace" <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> escribió:

> Hi Ralph, Hi Edgar,
> 
> I've started to look back into some of the font bugs.
> 
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5309
> contains a more likely fix for the #isfontAvailable
> bug currently in the image.
> 
> The patch I proposed (incorperated in update 7092) has
> been pointed out to be wrong. And several of the
> problems I have come across are atributable to the
> #isfontAvailable method giving wrong answers.
> 
> Fixing the bug, I came across another problem.
> 0006664: TTCFont>ascent can be infinitely recursive. 
> http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6664
> 
> This is one of the reasons recursive fallback fonts
> crash the system. A reversion to the 7067 code should
> cure the problem. I uploaded the goodie to help
> harvesting.
> 
> Anyway if 3dot10 is to be stable these both need to be
> fixed. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace

I answer from memory, but thinks Ralph found this recursive problem and
points.

Also think Andreas is aware of this issue and only his many lots of things
is delaying one better solution.

This week end I look all know bugs to send a report.

Thanks Jerome !

Edgar