Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

>> disabled field will be grey. >> >> Thanks, though - do you have any other suggestions? I think I am going to >> have to resort to using a substack for the menuitems of that button. >> >> Peace, >> >> J >> --Original Message-- >> Fro

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

runrev.com > To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > ReplyTo: How to use Revolution > Subject: Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu? > Sent: Aug 25, 2010 8:47 AM > > When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field > to some number, like 5

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu? Sent: Aug 25, 2010 8:47 AM When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field to some number, like 50? If so, you can see the underlying object, but the text is grayed. Try setting the

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field to some number, like 50? If so, you can see the underlying object, but the text is grayed. Try setting the "transparent" of the field instead. Then the text remains sharp, and only the white space is removed. As for let

Re: Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

When you say graying out the text, have you set the blendLevel of the field to some number, like 50? If so, you can see the underlying object, but the text is grayed. Try setting the "transparent" of the field instead. Then the text remains sharp, and only the white space is removed. As for let

Menu button with different fonts in label and menu?

What is the best was to achieve the effect of having a menu button, that is part of a group used as a menu bar, that has or appears to have a label that uses a standard font and menu items that use wingding characters? Is there a field setting that would allow mouse clicks to pass through to the

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/17/2010 11:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: It might be something to do with subjunctives - English does have them, though they are hard to recognize. "I want that you give me that apple". that seems to be OK if a little old fashioned and stilted. "I want that he obey his teacher" (not, th

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

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Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Wolfgang, if this were the only problem, then every reboot would take care of all the font problems, until you installed more fonts. That is not my experience. It varies from distro to distro, but my experience is that after very many reboots, you still have a situation where Rev fails to see

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

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Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

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Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/17/2010 04:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: We need Rev to tell us straightforwardly: Do they admit that basic functionality in the Linux version is broken? If so, do they intend to fix it? I suspect actions WILL speak louder than words. Out of deference to Jacque, Richard and Richm

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

about whether the Linux version, as being sold, works. If it were the Windows or the OSX version, would this be sold? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-fonts-tp2219888p2258769.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

I set up a stack containing a field "FFF" and a button with the following script: on mouseUp set the textFont of fld "FFF" to "Sanskrit 2003" set the useUnicode to true put uniencode("abx") into BLOB set the unicodeText of fld "FFF" to numToChar(57417) & BLOB end mouseUp [bad point]

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld "/field/" to "/fontname/" I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Richmond, thanks for the tip. Learned something new! Wolfgang Am 16.06.2010 17:47, schrieb Richmond: This is where your grammar gets problematic . . . :) 'you can supply information' . . . "information" is a MASS noun like 'water', 'air' and 'money'.

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

...) after the installation of your program. A fc-cache is done automatically when the gui is restarted. Ahah! That really is fantastic news. Regards Wolfgang Am 16.06.2010 17:06, schrieb Richmond: On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use al

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

he is done automatically when the gui is restarted. Regards Wolfgang Am 16.06.2010 17:06, schrieb Richmond: On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld "/

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld "/field/" to "/fontname/" I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Richmond wrote: On 06/14/2010 10:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, one sees no signs they are even working on this - and other problems. Are expressions of anger and impatience any less productive than compliant silence? This is not an excusable way for a company

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/14/2010 10:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, one sees no signs they are even working on this - and other problems. Are expressions of anger and impatience any less productive than compliant silence? This is not an excusable way for a company to behave! Ye

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, one sees no signs they are even working on this - and other problems. Are expressions of anger and impatience any less productive than compliant silence? This is not an excusable way for a company to behave! Yes, anger on a publicly searchable list can be dam

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/14/2010 10:33 PM, David C. wrote: Thank you Richmond for the care taken with your thoughtful reply. I've used a *lot* of different development tools and languages over the years and never found a single one that was exactly to my liking or to have met all of my felt needs. Whether it be Wi

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Thank you Richmond for the care taken with your thoughtful reply. I've used a *lot* of different development tools and languages over the years and never found a single one that was exactly to my liking or to have met all of my felt needs. Whether it be Windows or Linux (don't use Macs), Rev by fa

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

omething pretty good. Now it seems to me that both Thee and Me have been bashing on about FONTS long enough to give the folks in Edinburgh a nice set of cluster headaches; so I suggest we now give things a rest, and see what appears with 4.5. AT that point, if things are not what either of us

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

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Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/13/2010 12:18 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Can you imagine finding these directions on how to use installed fonts on a Python mailing list? Its simply ridiculous. Rev needs to make the fonts work on Rev like they do on all other applications. Or stop selling the thing! There are in

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote: Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld "/field/" to "/fontname/" I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Can you imagine finding these directions on how to use installed fonts on a Python mailing list? Its simply ridiculous. Rev needs to make the fonts work on Rev like they do on all other applications. Or stop selling the thing! There are in excess of 20k packages in the Debian repositories

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

Hello Richmond, I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem. With set the textfont of fld "/field/" to "/fontname/" I can use all available fonts. Only the function fontnames() does not return all the fonts. But you can get a list of fontn

Re: Cross-Platform Fonts

Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks Jacqueline, I have some notes about it here: <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/resources_fonts.html> All you ever wanted to know about Cross-Platform "Fonts", but were afraid to ask ! :) But like I said, it&#x

Cross-Platform Fonts

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks Jacqueline, I have some notes about it here: <http://www.hyperactivesw.com/resources_fonts.html> All you ever wanted to know about Cross-Platform "Fonts", but were afraid to ask ! -Francis "Nothing should ever be do

Re: [OT] Installing Linux fonts

w the answer to this, but we keep asking how Rev handles and finds fonts, and answer comes there none. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Installing-Linux-fonts-tp2219918p2219978.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabbl

[OT] Installing Linux fonts

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[OT] Installing Linux fonts

[I hope that the thread I am attempting to initiate will, eventually lead to an understanding of why RunRev does not play 'nicely' with Linux fonts] [Ubuntu 10.04 -- Debian deriv.] 1. open a .ttf font with FontViewer 2. click on 'Install Font' button ; 'Install Fai

Re: OT?: fonts on the iPhone and iPad

Ian Wood wrote: Just came across a handy list of the fonts and styles installed on the iPhone and iPad. http://www.michaelcritz.com/2010/04/02/fonts-for-ipad-iphone/ Handy for the people exploring revMobile. Very helpful - thank you Ian. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and

OT?: fonts on the iPhone and iPad

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Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Le 2 mars 10 à 18:15, François Chaplais a écrit : Le 2 mars 2010 à 17:56, Andre.Bisseret a écrit : I have read this thread on Apple mail, and at some point (pun intended) I realized I could zoom and de-zoom the messages by pinching or spreading my fingers on the touchpad, from the hardly

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Le 2 mars 2010 à 17:56, Andre.Bisseret a écrit : >> I have read this thread on Apple mail, and at some point (pun intended) I >> realized I could zoom and de-zoom the messages by pinching or spreading my >> fingers on the touchpad, from the hardly visible to waaay too enlarged. >> Now, if rev c

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Le 2 mars 10 à 16:41, François Chaplais a écrit : Le 2 mars 2010 à 08:45, G.Wolfgang Gaich a écrit : Hello all, I didn't read all the mails of this thread. My suggestion: In Ubuntu go to System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts. Activate Subpixel smoothing and click on details. There yo

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Le 2 mars 2010 à 08:45, G.Wolfgang Gaich a écrit : > Hello all, > > I didn't read all the mails of this thread. > > My suggestion: > > In Ubuntu go to System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts. > Activate Subpixel smoothing and click on details. > There you can ad

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Hello all, I didn't read all the mails of this thread. My suggestion: In Ubuntu go to System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts. Activate Subpixel smoothing and click on details. There you can adjust the resolution (dpi) to the needs of your display. dpi = xres x 2.54 / the width of your displa

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Peter- Interesting. On Ubuntu I get mwie...@mwieder-ubuntu:~/revolution/3.5.0-gm-2$ ./revolution Will try and use Shared Memory extensions XVideo extensions available? : No Will use X-Freetype font rendering Using Pango complex text layout *** glibc detected *** ./revolution double free or corrup

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

:~/ Studio4.0.0-gm-1$ ./revolution and it starts up. Maybe we have to do something with X-Freetype font rendering, however one might go about that? Peter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/fonts-what-is-a-point-in-Linux-Gnome-tp1573008p1574539.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Peter- Monday, March 1, 2010, 6:36:15 PM, you wrote: > see any difference in this whatever the window manager. So maybe this is > something Rev is doing in Gtk? And if so, why on earth are they doing it? How about launching revolution from the commandline instead of double-clicking the icon? I

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Well, they are an interesting set of links! It sounds like Ubuntu is now shipping their version of Gnome with too large defaults, at least for some people, and that this can largely be dealt with by correct choice of theme and fonts. Also that the size of the system bits does not adjust for

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Bob Sneidar wrote: > What would REALLY be nice, is if there were properties in Rev for > Default Field Font, Default Label Font, Default Button font etc, > with sizes and styles to match. Then it would be a simple matter > of changing the defaults depending on what platform you were running. > >

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Hi Richard. It may be rather tedious, but when I developed in Foxpro, there were always these kinds of issues. What a font looked like in Windows was NOT what it looked like in the Mac OS. So the initialization program set up variables with fonts and sizes based upon what platform you were

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Over the long term we can expect the Gnome team to come up with something clever, Firefox will migrate to points over pixels, and Rev will improve its GTK support to go along for the ride. In the short term, I'll just use 12-point fonts with more conventionally-sized controls than most

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

On 01/03/2010 22:51, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Now how does: 1. One find if these things; Pango, Xft, and so forth are present in a system? Use Synaptic and look them up - it will show you what's installed and what is available. Peter I really am a bit thick at times . . . :)

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

revFontLoad, on Mac and Win, means I can load any silly old font I like from any silly old location into my stack and use it. Were revFontLoad to work in Linux I have a funny feeling that almost all the font problems would be solved, or, at least ameliorated to such an extent that everybody fe

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

I checked and it is known to Synaptic as libpango, and its installed. With quite a few subsidiary libraries. It probably came as a dependency with Gtk, in which case most all distros will have it. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/fonts-what-is-a-point-in-Linux-Gnome

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Now how does: > > 1. One find if these things; Pango, Xft, and so forth are present in a > system? > > Use Synaptic and look them up - it will show you what's installed and what is available. Peter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/fonts-what

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Now here's a thought: On Mac there is a folder called .font in the user's Home folder (you cannot see it because the DOT makes it invisible): RunRev DOES NOT see fonts there. Try it. So it is probably rather daft to expect RunRev to see fonts in the same folder in Linux. Somethin

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 01/03/2010 20:40, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... I took a minute this morning to take some screen shots of Rev and OS controls on Ubuntu/Gnome, Win XP, and OS X: Frankly, Richard, it looks as though you took quite some time and

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

there not someone in the development group who could just tell us how Rev handles fonts in Linux? There must be someone who knows, and if he or she will just tell us, we can probably figure out how to work along with it. Page 18 of the User Guide lists the requirements for running Rev in

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

could just tell us how Rev handles fonts in Linux? There must be someone who knows, and if he or she will just tell us, we can probably figure out how to work along with it. Page 18 of the User Guide lists the requirements for running Rev in Linux. It mentions "xft". I don't

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

's not quite so simple as that if your goal is to make one layout that works well on all supported platforms, as I'll explain more below. But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then put the font size to 12, and opened up OpenOffice and did the same thi

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

ev handles fonts in Linux? There must be someone who knows, and if he or she will just tell us, we can probably figure out how to work along with it. Peter -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/fonts-what-is-a-point-in-Linux-Gnome-tp1573008p1574085.html Sent from the Revolut

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

s to make one layout that works well on all supported platforms, as I'll explain more below. But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then put the font size to 12, and opened up OpenOffice and did the same thing. Its true. Rev looks like its about 6 poin

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

ctive) pretty much the same as my Mac OS 10.5.8 at 1280 x 1024 on a 17" monitor. The inescapable facts are: 1. Linux "does" fonts in a different way to Mac and Win. 2. RunRev on Linux "doesn't" very well when it comes to fonts. Having said that I should say

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

istro I've used. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/fonts-what-is-a-point-in-Linux-Gnome-tp1573008p1574003.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lis

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

If I had to guess, it's the fact that Win and Apple use graphics engines that can render smaller objects with greater detail, and so there is no need to make objects larger in order to make them look better. Bob On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Since the days of Motif, *N

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

On 01/03/2010 18:22, J. Landman Gay wrote: Since I know little about any of this, I'll just add the info as it was passed to me: Rev needs X11 fonts. It only works with those. Tiny fonts are caused by the font server in use. A customer who had the same issue wrote: "It was my f

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

Peter Alcibiades wrote: But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then put the font size to 12, and opened up OpenOffice and did the same thing. Its true. Rev looks like its about 6 point, and OO looks normal 12 point. After you find one of the few fonts they

Re: fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

inority of the population. But I can't see that my desktop icons or panels or any other UI elements are materially different in size from the way they are in Windows. And if they are, you just resize them, surely? But as to the fonts, I fired up Rev, created a stack with a field in it, then pu

fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

The font prefs in Ubuntu (Gnome) show "10" as the default point size for most applications, including the fonts used in menus. Yet in Rev, setting the textSize to "12" is still much smaller, and only when I bump it to "14" does it get even close to what Ubuntu

Re: Linux, Fonts, endless nagging . . .

wrote: > > unlike a pitbull, pushing a finger up my bottom won't make me let go . . . > :) > > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Linux-Fonts-endless-nagging-tp1563500p1564116.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list a

Linux, Fonts, endless nagging . . .

RIGHT! Feeling suitably belligerent . . . [Pentium 4, pots of RAM, Ubuntu 8.04.4, mixed GNU/KDE] Installed my specialist font in /usr/share/fonts and /home/username/.fonts/ and mucked around with the terminal: sudo fc-cache -f -v (which is really going to turn on end-users like nobody&#

Fonts and Ubuntu

Just clearing out my 'sent' box . . . . . . Original Message Subject: Fonts and Ubuntu Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:48 +0200 From: Richmond Mathewson To: How to use Revolution So there I am, merrily playing around with a Linux standalone of my Deva

Fonts in Ubuntu and RunRev . . . Again

The documentation for Ubuntu says that if one pops TrueType fonts into a folder inside the Home/User folder applications will 'see' them - and that is generally true. But it is not true for RunRev, which, apprently, only 'sees' the fonts inside the system itself . . .

Windows Registry setting - to install fonts

It seems I need to address the Windows Registry to install a font. And again to uninstall it. To do this I would like to understand what components are required. I've narrowed it down to: Root Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: \Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\ Name (arbi

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Richmond, And usually when I am answering an Ubuntu question I find that I am insulting the questioner, because they have already tried the suggestion that I am making. It seems that once folks try Linux they become pretty proficient at it pretty quickly. The 'net has made learning any number of

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Sorry, Richmond. For as many times as people on this list call me "Mickey", it was time for me to screw up someone else's name... The good news is that it is not all-that-difficult to write shell scripts that can do some of the work for you. Also, maybe I'm not using the Linux version enough, bu

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Damien Girard wrote: Hi, To install new font on Linux you must copy the file to /usr/share/fonts or /home/username/.fonts/ and then rebuild the font cache with: sudo fc-cache -f -v Merde! This really fantastic sort of stuff is part of what puts ordinary people off Linux. This is, at

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

om 20:16 heeft Damien Girard het volgende geschreven: Hi, To install new font on Linux you must copy the file to /usr/share/ fonts or /home/username/.fonts/ and then rebuild the font cache with: sudo fc-cache -f -v For icons, take a look at xdg-desktop-menu and xdg-desktop-icon:

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Hi, To install new font on Linux you must copy the file to /usr/share/fonts or /home/username/.fonts/ and then rebuild the font cache with: sudo fc-cache -f -v For icons, take a look at xdg-desktop-menu and xdg-desktop-icon: http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-desktop-menu.html

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Mikey wrote: Richard - excuse me for asking a really basic question and insulting your intelligence, You are not insulting my intelligence; you are pointing out my ignorance - the 2 are not the same thing . . . :) but why not just su or sudo su or sudo nautilus (if you are trying to bring u

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Hi Mikey, I don't know whether Richmond tried this, but I did and Rev doesn't find the fonts. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

Richard - excuse me for asking a really basic question and insulting your intelligence, but why not just su or sudo su or sudo nautilus (if you are trying to bring up a desktop window)? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the t

Re: Fonts and Ubuntu

on the executable, and installation of fonts. Any ideas? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Download Strõm Flow Chart Software http://flowproject.economy-x-talk.com

Fonts and Ubuntu

So there I am, merrily playing around with a Linux standalone of my Devawriter and find I am quite unable to install the necessary font in: /etc/fonts as am not ROOT this may prove a problem for others as well . . . ___ use-revolution mailing list

[OT] WOFF fonts

Just downloaded a beta version of Firefox and came across this: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/woff/ Supposedly (?!?!) they are smaller (i.e. less lag time for download) and rather easier to track to their origins. I wonder about whether these will work with RunRev and revlets? __

non-standard unicode fonts

Because the unicode consortium did not make space for all the highly complex characters required to produce properly digitised Devanagari (Hindi/Sanskrit) text a semi-official standard has been evolved by indologists whereby most characters are stored in a non-unicode area starting beyond the 655

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Another basic question:  What fonts are good for deploying stacks cross > platform?  That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start unexpected word > wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on Mac. Here are the cross

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

) than their formattedHeight and formattedWidth. Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you suggested so they're available inside my stand alone? Thanks, Ray On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote: T

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

if you're still following this, where do I locate additional fonts such as the Bit Stream Vera fonts you suggested so they're available inside my stand alone? Thanks, Ray On Aug 11, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Two words, Ray: White Space! Well-placed white space can improve the

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

Phil, Thanks for these ideas. I'm assuming by 'white space' you mean simply making fields larger (to one degree or another) than their formattedHeight and formattedWidth. Phil, if you're still following this, where do I locate additional fonts such as the Bit S

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

n, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software On Aug 11, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Ray, You really should make your software such that it takes word wrapping into account. You want to use similar fonts for visual consistency across platforms, not to make sure that the last word of the sec

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

Two words, Ray: White Space! Well-placed white space can improve the user's grasp of on-screen information while also letting your fields to be bigger than they might otherwise need to be, to allow for slight metric differences between similar fonts (or the same font on different plat

Re: Cross Platform Fonts

Ray, You really should make your software such that it takes word wrapping into account. You want to use similar fonts for visual consistency across platforms, not to make sure that the last word of the second sentence is always on the third line of a field. If you need to be sure that

Cross Platform Fonts

Another basic question: What fonts are good for deploying stacks cross platform? That is, fonts which will mostly likely NOT start unexpected word wraps on Windows when there was no word wrapping on Mac. Thanks, Ray Horsley ___ use-revolution

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

Richmond Mathewson wrote: Sivakatirswami wrote: But, for the life if me, I can't find the original Devanagari and Devanagari QWERTY keyboards to delete them... Probably the best thing to do is to remove the original Devanagari and Devanagari QWERTY keyboards via System Preferences/Internati

Re: Embedding Fonts . . . again . . .

Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, It is part of Revolution as in "included with" and it has always been an external. Although I agree that the documentation is slightly confusing, I believe the usage of the font external should be clear to a veteran like you. When documentation changes w

Re: Embedding Fonts . . . again . . .

Hi Richmond, It is part of Revolution as in "included with" and it has always been an external. Although I agree that the documentation is slightly confusing, I believe the usage of the font external should be clear to a veteran like you. When documentation changes with a new release of R

Embedding Fonts . . . again . . .

Sarah Reichelt suggested that I: Have a look at the revFontLoad & revFontUnload commands. They used to be part of the altFont external, but are now part of Revolution itself. [ http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2008-April/109670.html ] and, a year and a half later, here I am. S

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

Sivakatirswami wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Sorry, the modified Mac keyboard layouts at: At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip Congrats! and Thank you! ONLY allow access to the Udatta and Anudatta symbols used in the Rg and Atharva Vedas. You can mark Svarita by combining U

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

Richmond Mathewson wrote: Sorry, the modified Mac keyboard layouts at: At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip Congrats! and Thank you! ONLY allow access to the Udatta and Anudatta symbols used in the Rg and Atharva Vedas. You can mark Svarita by combining Udatta and Anudatta. Th

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

Sorry, the modified Mac keyboard layouts at: At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip ONLY allow access to the Udatta and Anudatta symbols used in the Rg and Atharva Vedas. You can mark Svarita by combining Udatta and Anudatta. This is because the unicode standard does not seem to eit

Re: Unicode - AAT vs OT fonts in Revolution

Hey-Ho! At: http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/DevKeys.zip there are now the 2 standard Macintosh Devanagari keyboard layouts that I have hacked to allow udatta and anudatta input. 'Devanagari' Udatta: Shift - B Anudatta: Shift - N 'Devanagari-QWERTY' Udatta: Alt - Z Anudatta: Alt - X You

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