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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: HyperCard 1.0 fields vs Zapf Chancery
Keywords: HyperCard 1.0  field  Zapf Chancery
Message-ID: <16639@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 88 23:38:42 GMT
References: <6131@dasys1.UUCP> <66420@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <66420@sun.uucp> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>I've recently noticed some minor bugs when I have a HyperCard 1.0
>field using a largish (18 pt?) size of Zapf Chancery (my favorite
>non-roman font).  Specifically:
>
>(1) If a lower case 'j' is the first character on a line, most of the
>    descender doesn't show on the screen.  It appears to be getting
>    clipped to some inner bounding rectangle of the field.
>
>(2) If you're typing into a field, and you type a 'j' and then backspace
>    to delete it, sometimes (depends on preceding text, i.e. probably
>    varies depending on exactly where the 'j' falls) a piece of the
>    descender is left there.  This is purely a display bug; if you
>    go to another card and then back it's not there.
>
>HYPOTHESES:
>
>	There is a bug in the description of 'j' in that size of
>	Zapf Chancery, -or-
>
>	HyperCard is taking some shortcuts that don't quite work,
>	perhaps in the backspace code, -or-
>
>	There's an underlying bug in the toolbox that this exposes.
>
>To reproduce, make an appropriate field and type in:
>
>j<RETURN>
>Sj<BACKSPACE><RETURN>
>Saj<BACKSPACE><RETURN>
>Sanj<BACKSPACE><RETURN>

Well, as luck would have it I cannot reproduce your bug.  I am using a
Mac SE with a Radius Accelerator board, HC 1.2, and System 6.0.1.  Old
versions of the LW+ fonts had screwed up FOND resources, which have
important font width information.  I would get a recent version of
Font/DA Mover, like 3.8, and get some recent fonts and try reinstalling
the fonts.  No problems here!

Dan Allen
Apple Computer