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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Workbench fonts
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Date: 22 Apr 91 02:24:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: brett@visix.com's message of 19 Apr 91 17:03:01 GMT

In article <1991Apr19.170301.9148@visix.com> brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) writes:

> In WB 2.02, why are only some fonts available for the system default font?

The default font must be a nonproportional font.  Thus, fonts like
Helvetica won't work.  Handling proportional fonts is hard work, and
if you were to set the default font to something proportional, a lot
of programs might break.  However, the only applications which usually
have to deal with screen title bars and icon names are Intuition and
Workbench, respectively.  Since Intuition and Workbench know how
to deal with prop fonts in 2.0, Prefs lets you use them for titles
and icons.


nj