There are a couple of questions here and I will do my best to answer them.
The font defaults in Professional are stored in our resources (MIRES???.DLL) The
system character set gives us information that we use to index into a list of
locale appropriate default fonts. Also our localizers, who translate the
resources to the local languages have the opportunity to change these resources.
These defaults are very general. So, for example, the same value initializes the
font for new text as is used for labeling, layout and layer overrides. A
somewhat simpler font (it does need to be able to rotate) is used for the legend
, browser, info tool, statistics and the like.
Some singleton windows (Info, message) support the Set Window Font clause
statement, effectively allowing you to set a default in startup. wor as they are
singleton. Some folks have effected the same thing for multiple document
windows such as browsers by doing the same thing in a WinChangedHandler.
What would indeed be better would be able to set defaults for various entities
separately. However, there seems to be some disagreement over what is best. For
example, a font for labeling might reasonably be part of the table metadata
rather than some overall labeling default. Legend text is part of the existing
templates, so a default would have no effect.
Eric Blasenheim
Software Architect
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