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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: wp crashing (again)
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Date: 12 May 89 00:17:04 GMT
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In article <8905102038.AA19268@jade.berkeley.edu> RICK@QUCDNAST.BITNET writes:
>It's not obscure. If you use an interlaced workbench (I do; I bought a
>long persistence monitor so I could.) and if you, as a result, modify
>the system font to topaz 11 or pearl 11 (one of the reasons topaz 11
>appeared in fonts: when 1.2 appeared, I think), then you will encounter
>either (a) an unusable WordPerfect or (b) a system crash if you decide
>to try and deal with (a). I was _not_ looking for wierd ways to crash
>the program; I was just trying to _use_ WP without completely changing
>my work environment.

The Amiga does not support fonts that are neither 8 or 9 points as the
default font. Period. It may with 1.4, but in the meantime you use 
other fonts at your own risk. Holding it against WordPerfect that 
WP crashes in that configuration is not rational. You can't read the
workbench menus very well either, nor does AmigaBASIC function so hot,
nor does any number of other problems. It ain't WP's fault it is the
Amigas for not doing something you would like it to be capable of. 

I've suggested to word perfect that they force the font to Topaz/8
when they run. I'm sure that wouldn't turn you on either. 

To be perfectly clear. I understand your problem very well (I too use
an interlaced WB all of the time), and WordPerfect should be able to 
support different fonts (and in fact they do support any font you can
select through preferences). But they don't support hacks, even those
by Commodore employees. They aren't required to.


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