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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: What font does Intuition use?
Keywords: Intuition, IntuiText, TextAttr
Message-ID: <10378@well.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 89 21:51:57 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Organization: The Blue Planet
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+-- jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
| In article <10289@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
| )I think I'll just stick to topaz8/9.  It simpler.
| 
| Try to use the default system font, wherever possible.  In the future (near
| future), this will be different than topaz 8/9.  
| It will be important to respect the default font to work nicely on higher
| resolution displayes, and with the user's choice, esp. when he can choose
| proportional fonts.

Seems like a good idea, but it may not be practical without better
tools.  If the user picks diamond/20, for example, all my menu's are
going to plunge off the bottom of the screen unless I add more code
to make them wrap around.  Requesters would have to be formatted on
the fly, rather than built statically as they are now.  It would be
a really good thing, I agree, but it seems like more trouble than it's
worth right now.

| For V1.4, I hope that system fonts are predictable and versatile.  I'll keep
in
| touch with you to get your feedback down the stretch.  By the way, do you
| have a copy of my DevCon paper "Application Fonts on the Amiga"?


No.  I'm sure that would make a big difference.  I'll try to lay my hands
on a copy.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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