very different width for space character when not using screen fonts

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Wierschin
Hi everyone, I've a small mystery on my hands. When displaying text in the Italic Garamond font via an NSLayoutManager that has screen fonts disabled the horizontal space allocated for a normal space (good old 0x20) is too large. Here's a screenshot with screen fonts are enabled:

Re: very different width for space character when not using screen fonts

2008-12-02 Thread Douglas Davidson
On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote: I don't expect this is something I'll be able to work around, but even if I just wanted to report it to Apple, is this a problem with the font itself or the layout system? Any thoughts? Most likely this is a font issue, but go ahead and

Re: very different width for space character when not using screen fonts

2008-12-02 Thread Ross Carter
On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote: Hi everyone, I've a small mystery on my hands. When displaying text in the Italic Garamond font via an NSLayoutManager that has screen fonts disabled the horizontal space allocated for a normal space (good old 0x20) is too large. I