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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Fonts, fonts, everywhere...
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Date: 30 Jan 91 21:56:38 GMT
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> Is there a font that is common to all hardware platforms? I've noticed that
> when I switch from the DECstation to the VAXstation, the DEFAULT_CHAR_SET
> that is chosen is different, resulting in the effective lengths of labels,
> lists, text, etc. being different, and hence, 'running into each other'.
> 
> If I could guarantee that the same font is used, then the layout of the 
> dialogs would be the exact same.  Could this be defined in the app-defaults
> file, or does it have to be hard-coded?

For what it's worth, this is one reason (internationalization being
the other obvious extension) that I *never* use an absolute size
or position in my apps.  Forms, Tables and RowCols all the way.
This is also one reason why I consider virtual toolkits to be
virtually useless for real apps.

						-kee