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Subject: Re: Suitcase II anomaly
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Date: 23 May 89 23:36:33 GMT
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In article <11765@well.UUCP> brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher) writes:
>
>In article <9334@polya.Stanford.EDU>, kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T.
>Kaufman) writes:
>
>> [Font Harmony's font renumbering] sure seems isomorphic to random.  It is not
>> RANDOM only in the sense that it insures non-conflict with other FOND ids.
>
>It is not random in any sense.  FOND IDs are chosen by a deterministic
>algorithm that (a) avoids using numbers in 0..255 where possible, i.e., where
>the family is all-NFNT (b) avoids conflict with IDs already in use on the
>user's system; (c) minimizes the chance of future conflict with IDs assigned
>by Apple to font vendors; and (d) minimizes the chance of conflict with FONTs
>embedded in applications.
>-- 
>
>brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)

There is a conflict with method (a) of the algorithm which I just ran into.
It seems that WordPerfect Corp. set up WordPerfect so that it only recognizes
FOND numbers under 255.  Kind of dumb, although it is being fixed as we speak.
So if you suddenly can't select a font from your Font menu, that font may have
a FOND id over 255.  My question to Steve is whether or not there is any way
of making sure certain fonts end up in a certain range of numbers?  I don't
really care if my weird bitmap fonts are over 255 (and I won't care at all
soon), but I was having a nightmare not being able to use Bookman or Palatino,
etc.  I fixed everything using ResEdit, but now I'm afraid to re-Harmonize for
fear of messing it up again.

Any suggestions (other than hassle WordPerfect, who have been remarkably
prompt and helpful whenever I call)?

Actually, while I'm on the subject of WordPefect, if you use Deneba Software's
Comment 2.0, the line number in WordPerfect is messed up by AutoLoader.  Don't
know why and haven't gotten to calling Deneba yet.  

Also, WordPerfect 1.02 introduced a bug which keeps the program from informing
the user if Timed Backup files exist after a crash.  This only happens on
occasion, but is a pain.  The work around is to use Files Management to change
the type of the file to WPD0 from whatever it is, WPTV I think.  Then you can
open it normally.  Nice being ableto do that from within a program, rather than
having to mess with ResEdit.

Adam Engst

Unassociated thoughts . . . .