Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:22324 comp.sys.mac.programmer:2991
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!borton
From: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Patches for appFont 9 and cursor handling
Message-ID: <562@uva.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 16:49:37 GMT
References: <552@uva.UUCP> <2549@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET>
Reply-To: borton@uva.UUCP (Chris Borton)
Organization: Faculteit Wiskunde & Informatica, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Lines: 33

In article <2549@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET> a88763@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET (S. Matsuoka) writes:
>>Note to developers: if you have any cases of using appFont size 9, please
>>change them unless there is a very good (and specific) reason.  I believe
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>most of these are mere oversights and don't come up often since the
>>prevailing appFont is Geneva.
>
>NO NO NO, NEVER DO THIS!  Here in Japan, the application font is not
>Geneva, but Osaka, which is specially configured to display Kanji
>characters under Kanji Talk v2.0 (and perhaps later.)  Too often,
>applications make the INCORRECT ASSUMPTION that application font = Geneva;
>when they do, any Kanji characters displayed in Geneva just turns into
>complete unreadable garbage! 

This is a good point.  It hilites the problem, though, that I was going to
ask soon anyway -- what should one use for default 9-point?  Most people use
appFont.  Fine, 95% (?) of users have Geneva as appFont, which looks fine in
9-point.  But those who don't get screwed.

TN 91 says nothing other than 0 and 1 (sysFont and appFont) are holy as far
as the numbers go.  I was wondering how they would 'enforce' this when Geneva
is in the SE ROMs.  Now here is a good example why not.

Unless someone comes up with a nicer solution, I guess we'll have to stick to
being much more careful--go get Geneva when you want Geneva 9 and use appFont
for nice things like default font of editor.

Suggestions?

-cbb
-- 
Chris Borton	borton%uva@mcvax.{nl,bitnet,uucp} 
Rotary Scholar, University of Amsterdam CS