![]() If I would mention all the details everywhere, my articles would be twice larger, and normal people will be bored. Mentioning a font viewer and a reset without entering the details was the fastest solution for a hurried writer. But in the context from which you extracted that sentence I did not want to write long explanations like "download this font viewer, unarchive, open a shell, type this, but first you must do that, then you will obtain." and so on. Yes, actually I always use the internal font viewer of Directory Opus Magellan II and the shell command "Avail flush" to clean up the RAM. In such a case they already have the answer: there is no doubt that the global bounding box is the safest solution (however not the best looking, in my opinion). With our multiethnic community, the use of accented capital letters or non-latin glyphs will almost certainly bring me the complaints of some users for bad font alignment. And, yes, I never found alignment problems with any glyph and any font size (for Italian and English texts). This font setting runs on my PegasosII since two years and on my Amiga4000/060/PPC since six years. > I don't quite agree on your choice of metrics. (I would like to thank also Henes, who commented my previous article on ANN six months ago.) You don't have to reset, if you simply make sure that no program is currently using this font (ie, quit them), all you have to do is "FlushLib diskfont.library" from a Shell, and all unused fonts will be purged from the cache.įirst of all: thank you! A positive comment from a MorphOS Team member is a great honour for me. "Change one parameter at a time in the installation window and see the results with a suitable font viewer (changes become effective after a reset)." I don't quite agree on your choice of metrics, imo the only safe one is Global Boundingbox, as that is the only one that can guarantee that all glyphs fit inside, however by far all glyphs are used in any given charset, so it might be that you never encounter any glyphs that do not fit correctly with the metrics you chose, so ofcourse this is a trial-and-error game, but again, Global is the only safe one (albeit it can create some unnecessarily big boundingboxes on certain fonts). Nice article (I've been using a similar setup for years already though), I just have a couple of remarks though.
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