Re: Missing descenders in Notabene

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 08:19 AM 3/9/2008, Paul Breeze wrote:
> I have a query for anybody using Notabene regularly. I have found
> that when I reach to bottom of the screen, the descenders in the
> bottom line of type (where, inevitably I am typing) disappear off
> the bottom of the screen. I have tried different fonts and sizes
> but all show this to a degree. Is this just me, or does anybody
> else see the same effect?
You mean the bottoms of letters such as p, g, y and so forth are
slightly cut off by what NB calls its *status bar?* Yes, I get that
too. Play with the zoom a bit and see what happens. Play also with
preferences->Screen Display->Screen Fonts *Size as a % of Printer
Font.* (We might be able to set these more precisely in nb.ini; I
haven't checked.) Or toggle to *Full window* especially in draft mode
and it works fine. Even in V8 after all their iterations there are
still screen handling issues. For example, raise the zoom to 150 in
draft mode, and as you type the first two line of text you might see
those *extenders* you refer to flicker in the first two lines. I run
a two-screen setup under Ultramon and when i quite NB in *full
screen* I get a serious GPF and have to reinstall the program. (NB NY
is working on a fix.) The screen issues, apparently, depend on your
setup, all the factors that drive your display. For years most of
these issues were in draft view, where XYWriters like to work.
Starting with V8, the authors addressed many of those issues, but
there are still some very small anomalies and artifacts, depending on
your setup. For example, I changed the background screen to dark
blue with gray letters. When I start the program now, it behaves a
bit spastically with blue and white screen flipping up and
disappearing until finally the blue comes up solid. I'm sure there
are easily explainable reasons for some of this, easily explainable
by people who know who the program works.
Michael Norman