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- From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Alg. for Detection of Monspaced Fonts
- Message-ID: <6548.2b2df4e1@hayes.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 15:08:17 EDT
- References: <scott.724029618@phylo> <1992Dec11.174609.27269@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
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- In article <1992Dec11.174609.27269@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Eric.J.Baumgartner@dartmouth.edu (Eric J. Baumgartner) writes:
- > In article <scott.724029618@phylo>
- > scott@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Scott Howard) writes:
- >
- >> My Application requires that all fonts it uses are monospaced
- >> and will allow the user to choose display fonts that meet that requirement.
- >
- > Check out the FontRec structure and FMSwapFont. The first field in
- > FontRec tells you if the font's proportional or fixed width.
-
- Nice idea in theory.
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- However, I have yet to see a single font whose "fontType" field was set
- to anything other than "propFont."
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- This has been a "bug" (or at least an incomplete execution of a feature)
- since 1984.
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