From: muller@inf.ethz.ch Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:04:05 +0200 To: oberon@inf.ethz.ch Cc: muller@inf.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [Oberon] ETH N-O Native/Beta directory display Reply-To: oberon@inf.ethz.ch

Charles Angelich <cangelich@famvid.com> wrote:

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640x480 video display driver: System track = 36 Oberon10.Scn.Fnt chars User track = 63 Oberon10.Scn.Fnt chars

Since Oberon10 is a proportional font it makes no sense to count the number of characters. Or did you mean Courier10?

Not a good idea to make non-backward-compatible changes in a low-level module. Neither is field padding with a proportional font.

While viewing the existing installed fonts within NO Native 08.12.00 to verify my suspicions that the space char was defined as one-half of a space char I found some surprises. Within the same font size I found that the normal font space was not always the same size as the bold font space size. This is within the same font size! If I change a phrase within a paragraph to bold the spacing would also change! I also found that TAB was not _always_ four one-half-spaces, in some fonts it is smaller than that for no apparent reason? You not only have a proportional font you also have a not-proportional font within the proportional fonts. I also added a dot within the ZERO char to assist in reading Oberon source code when the capital "O" is being used along with the "0" (zero) char. Not pretty really but easier on the eyes IMO. Now you can tell me that alerations to correct this are verboten. ;-) Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost Stories, poems, music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf