Re: Symbol font
Re: Symbol font
- Subject: Re: Symbol font
- From: Chris Ridd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:29:57 +0000
On 2/1/03 4:45 pm, Mike Ferris <email@hidden> wrote:
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The Cocoa text system's "font fixing" will look for a font that has
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visual properties similar to the font assigned to a character if it has
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to find a different font. It takes into account such things as weight,
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italics, serif/sans-serif, etc... Obviously this is a slightly fuzzy
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process. So if you have 5 fonts with the Kappa character, you should
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get the one that is closest in appearance to the font that was assigned
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to the character.
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Mike
Is it tunable? I could imagine that extremely fancy typesetting systems
would have a different (and possibly user-controlled) idea of what is
appropriate than Cocoa's text system.
Cheers,
Chris
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