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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re default font id
Message-ID: <8812162045.AA28047@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Dec 88 20:45:31 GMT
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       The only reason it exists is to prevent there being a "No-font-selected"
       error.

   Is this really so?

Yes, that was a major reason for its existance.

   I would have thought the reason for a default font was
   to allow at least some level of functionality when the standard font library
   or a requested font was unavailable.

The possibility of that of course increased the desirability of a default font.
But, as Rosenthal has pointed out, there are potentially unreasonable
assumptions that must be made to make use of a default font.