You’re right- the 1983 quote is “never trust those city-named fonts” alluding to the old Mac system fonts.
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 8:47 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I actually the problem is the opposite of what you stated. I believe that > certain fonts see the problem whereas more mainstream fonts don't. For > example, neither Times nor Helvetica/Arial see the problem but New York > does. New York is a fairly obscure font, but it happens to be the one I use. > > I would not say the problem is solved. But at least the steps to reproduce > it have been refined and narrowed. > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 7:16 PM David H. Bailey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> On 8/7/2019 2:55 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: >>> I have been following up on this with Makemusic. It turns out that if I >>> change the font of my Lyrics to Times then I can see the entire block. >> For >>> those on this thread who have experienced this problem, I thought you >> might >>> like to know that it depends which font you use as to whether you see the >>> problem. >>> >> >> I'm glad they've solved the problem, however it seems to me it's pretty >> poor programming when what is visible depends on the font. I can >> understand a character-count limit, or a line limit, but to not function >> properly with any font other than Times seems like somebody in the >> development team dropped the ball. >> >> Thanks for sharing the solution with us, Robert! >> >> >> -- >> ***** >> David H. Bailey >> [email protected] >> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
