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Fonts #3 last time Addendum

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Fonts #3 last time Addendum Jim Clark 08 Sep 22:42
Jim Clark
2003-09-08 22:42:02 UTC (over 20 years ago)

Fonts #3 last time Addendum

I installed gfontview (thanks Natalie) and the troubled and confused fonts display the test sentence accurately. Go figure.

Jim Clark

-- Thanks for the previous messages.

Fonts that showed up in my font list but showed "not available" were in a fonts.dir file in the directory but not actually in the directory. I removed the offending lines from the fonts.dir file, and all is well (in that area.) It was telling me the truth--the selected font was not available!

However.....I have gotten my font list to the level I want. But some fonts display an extra character (an @) at the front of the list (when displayed in Dynamic Text.) So instead of the list looking like:

ABCDEFGHI...

It says:

@ABCDEFH....

Which makes every letter one off. Want an A? Type a B. Want a U? Type a V! That sure doesn't help the touch typist. This is only true for some fonts; others display accurately. It is not true for all the fonts in a directory, some within the directory work fine, some do not. But they all used to work fine.....

This is pretty mysterious. Any ideas?

Jim Clark