Re: Fonts for NB

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 09:50 AM 3/18/2008, Bill Troop wrote:
In any case, why can't NB get their wretched program to work with this
most standard of Windows fonts?
It's not just Verdana. I get the same thing with a PS courier font
(Yes, I use ClearType, and yes I'm on an LCD Sony drive by a Matrox
P650 dual for two monitors and using Ultramon. But I get the same
lost descenders on a machine at work with different hardware.
Their tech support explains this below. Forgive me for posting it
again, but since Bill Troop asked:
*We begin painting at the top of the text area, and then, based on
font size and leading (taking into account screen resolution) keep
painting up until we run out of screen space. For your font, your
leading, and your screen size/resolution, it just happens not to
have enough space to draw the entire bottom line. As you page up/down
through the file, or scroll by line through it (either by keystroke or by
using the scrollbar elevator), you will see that the bottom line ends up in
different places. There is really nothing obvious that we can do to
prevent this. We
certainly don't want to rewrite the entire screen once we get to the bottom
to move it all up a fraction (that would have a huge performance hit, and
have more serious aesthetic issues, as well as negatively affecting the top
line of text).  In any case, this is the way we have handled
the screen for years and years, without complaints until now. Given
the lack of negative feedback on this point, we are, candidly,
unlikely to devote the quite considerable resources to changing
this. But more to the point is that it's not at all clear what we
could do to change this, even if
we were inclined to rewrite some of the most basic routines around which the
program has been built over the years.*

Michael Norman