Re: Missing descenders in Notabene

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

I've played with zoom, and 'size as a % of Printer Font' but these make
little difference. The only font with which I can reliably keep the
descenders on screen is Lucinda Console. It seems a shame to be forced
to use a non-proportional font when there are so many better fonts
available. This may be font-size sensitive, to the extent that if I
move from my usual 12pt to a smaller font, more of the descender appears
but I cannot find a way to entirely eliminate the problem with the
proportional fonts I have tried.

Paul

Michael Norman wrote:
> 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