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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:06:34 MST
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:42:39 +0200 (WET)
From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Cc: ghill@airmail.net, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: Windows Beta Set Up Problem
In-Reply-To: <199610300030.SAA05386@segfault.cs.utsa.edu>
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On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Clinton Jeffery wrote:
>
> Thanks for reporting your experience; we always need more feedback.
> It sounds like one problem is that someone has installed your Windows95
> in a pretty peculiar way.
>
> Icon asks for a fixed-width font in the default character set. Windows'
> font mechanism is a little funny; you specify the characteristics of the
> font you want, and Windows gives you the closest "match". The pitch we
> ask for is FIXED_PITCH and the family is FF_MODERN. We use NULL for a
> specific face name, letting Windows choose an appropriate device-dependent
> font with those characteristics. This produces a reasonable default font
> on every Windows system I've heard of before this, including Windows95.
> Apparently on your system, the "closest match" that Icon is able to find
> is a symbol font of some kind. One solution would be to provide an
> environment variable that let's users specify the default font; I'll have
> to consult with others to see if this is a good plan.
>
This kind of problem is more likely to happen on foreign-language
systems. On such systems, some basic fonts are changed - and funny things
can happen.
I use J (the APL relative), and the "Terminal" font it uses on my Hebrew
system, lacks some of the box drawining characters essential for J...
Beware.
Ehud Lamm mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il