XyWin 4.12 Type Size Menu Trouble

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> On one of my *two* XyWin 4.12 machines, what seems to be a fairly >debilitating bug has suddenly appeared. > > The drop-down listing of type sizes, on the format bar, is suddenly >missing all its size choices. In their place is a single "section" symbol. >I can enter a point size manually, or from the command line, but cannot use >the menu to choose. > > When I go through the Preferences dialogue, to alter my type size >defaults and re-enter the missing point sizes, I get this error message: >Cannot Compare Number to String ≪pv10≫ == ≪pv03≫ > > Assuming that my Xwdlg.dlg file had become corrupted, I copied it from >the other machine and overwrote the one on the defective machine. No >result. > > Thanks for any help you can give.- >al > >Allan M. Siegal........................siegal@xxxxxxxx >Assistant Managing Editor >The New York Times Mr. Siegal, The typefaces that appear in the drop down list are controlled by the DF ZS setting in the XWSET.DFL. If you look there now, you will probably see a single section symbol. Set the value to a string of numbers (e.g. 8,10,12,14,16,18,24,36,48,72,144) and store the file. When you restart XyWrite, the value should take effect, and your drop down list restored. The other error message you are getting may be caused by the section symbol in the ZS value. If either of the problems persist, please contact us with a little more information; specifically: what printer you are using, whether you are using the XyWrite or Windows driver, and if it is the XyWrite driver, what the file size and date of your .PRN file is. Thanks very much Christopher Litsinger