Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
- Subject: Re: [Bug?] Text rendering under Cocoa
- From: "Bill Northcott" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:02:07 +1100
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When I try here (10.1.5), I get both J's exactly the same; only with
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Lucida Grande there seems to be a metric problem, which causes the left
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edge of the J to be somewhat into the letter, actually. Just try that,
try
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also to place a space (or even better a letter, say, 'a') before the
first
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J, and also try to select the J.
I don't think this is a bug. I think it is a result of the optical H&J in
10.2.
In your example it looks silly. But then you are using nonsense text. For
the run of real text, it looks better to have some characters project
slightly beyond the nominal margin while others are inset. The Character
is not truncated as you can see by moving in the left margin. Optimal
typesetting is NOT fitting to exact geometric margins. It is what looks
best.
Try having the next line start with a lower case y or t. You will see it
is set slightly in from the geometric margin. This is actually extremely
sophisticated typesetting and best left to experts.
Lucida Grande seems to be an example font of all the 'you beaut'
typographic gizmos in Jaguar. Older fonts probably lack the metric data
to do it
Bill Northcott
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