Re: TAME [was: Hardware ID (was Completely Off-Topic)]

[Si Wright xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Michael, Harry et al.--

I've been doing a little more Tame Prebeta8 testing.

The fonts are still a deal-breaker for me. Here are some that aren't spaced out, as well as the Che fonts:

Courier (strange carriage-return character)
Courier New
Courier PS
Lucida Sans Typewriter (left-arrow carriage return character sometimes pokes into the preceding letter)
Letter Gothic
Letter Gothic MT
MingLiu
NSimSun
SimSun (includes some odd artifacts--strikeouts on inserted text that disappear when cursor is moved elsewhere, a path of dots from backspacing, etc.)

None is as comfortable to my eye as Raster Fonts.

Also, the cursor movement is a little strange. Sometimes slightly retarded, and if (as I just did) I backspace across a line, it seems to speed up and slow down, which I don't remember it doing before.

Also, holding Delete is slower--I suppose I'd need to change the Key Repeat Rate. Switching in and out of Insert
 mode sometimes hesitates for a few seconds instead of working instantly.

Michael, for me Screen Layout sometimes provides extra lines, sometimes scrunches letter together (though not in a useful way) and sometimes makes no change (all after going back into DOS and adding an "x" in the text where the cursor was). Text Aspect Ratio works on some of the useful fonts--moving letters slightly to resize the window, but still readable--and, unfortunately, has no effect on most others I tried.
 
The Thesaurus/NumLock situation, which I hadn't correctly described before, is odd. It always pops up fine (I use CTRL-T), and on the first uses the cursor moves properly through the list of synonyms from the arrow keys. But eventually it doesn't, and either it only moves if NumLock is on or NumLock has to be toggled.

For instance: After having it work correctly for a while now, I CLIPped this email text and pasted it into my Yahoo mail window.  Had to
 toggle NumLock when I returned to XyWrite.

 Anyway, that's not a big deal, but the fonts are.

Interestingly, Tame seems to have detected what's going on in  CLIP. Among Tame's options, if something has been CLIPped, is Paste (x bytes).

And Robert is right: It does make one admire the programming required to display fonts correctly. Joni Mitchell: "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."

I think I'll wait till 5.1 is no longer beta.

Jon Pareles

 The key is to experiment
with both settings and fonts.

Michael Norman


		
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