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Subject: bugs
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 01:01:09 EDT
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Date: 20 May 1984 02:22:22-EDT
From: uw-beaver!Bruce.Lucas@CMU-CS-IUS
Subject: bugs
To: utcsrgv!peterr
To: microsof!infomac

Here's another inconsistency between Notepad and MacWrite: the
interpretation of what character the cursor is pointing to is different.  In
one (I forget which is which) pointing anywhere within a character selects
the point just before that character; in the other, pointing within the
first half of the character selects the point before the character and
selecting in the second half of the character selects the point just after
that character.  This is annoying e.g. when making selections: I frequently
find myself selecting one character too few or one too many at the beginning
of the selection, because I don't have any consistent notion of exactly what
will be selected.

There's another asymmetry in the Quickdraw routines: the lines going from
say (x,y) to (x+dx,y+dy) and from (x,y) to (x+dx,y-dy), where dx is big and
dy is small, make their steps (jags) at different x positions.

By the way, I hope Monaco 9 isn't going to be the font used for MacTerminal;
it's unsuitable for that purpose in a number of respects: the worst problems
are that capital "O" and digit "0" are identical; capital "I" and small "l"
are virtually identical.  (Solution: add a stroke to the zero and add
crossbars to the "I").  Some aesthetic problems: given that it is a fixed
width font, the "i", "j", and "l" should have one-pixel "serifs" sticking
out to the left at the top, so that they don't look so lonely in that big
space; the "%" is rather unreadable.  The digit "1" is too far right in its
space and makes strings of digits containing it look uneven.  Given these
changes, "1" would be more distinguishable from "l" and "I" if it had a
crossbar at the bottom.