how to get an underscore character

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Fri Apr 28 09:51:09 UTC 2006


Am 28.04.2006 um 11:47 schrieb stéphane ducasse:

>>> \
>>>> Did the 3.9 team decide to adopt Berts underscore solution and,  
>>>> if so, is there a plan to run his conversion for 3.9 which  
>>>> converts the code from underscore assignment to :=?
>>>
>>> Yes but we have to pay attention since we are using MC and we do  
>>> not know if we would not get loading order problems
>>> if we would recompile everything (may be this is totally wrong  
>>> what I'm saying since marcus already recompiled several times the  
>>> image). So I have to check my fears :)
>>
>> Your fears may well be valid. What's really unpredictable when  
>> loading multiple MC packages at once is the order of initialize  
>> calls.
>>
>> This is not really related to this package, but we might want to  
>> add the disabling of underscore assignments preference from  
>> Croquet, so you notice any missed ones when recompiling.
>
> Yeap
> do you have it somewhere?

There is one which actually patches the fonts, but that's not  
critical and safe to run twice.

I rather meant that if packages are modified by converting  
underscores and then are loaded together, it may be problematic.

- Bert -




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