A further update. While different fonts behave differently, it appears that
any font can cause the problem if you set the font size big enough.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:18 PM Anne Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >>
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