Hi David, What font do you have your UI set to? That could have some effect.
alex K6LOT > On Jan 14, 2022, at 11:00 AM, David Tiller via wsjt-devel > <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Dear devs, > > I know this is a very minor issue, but I'd like to pass on some additional > info I've found. > > The issue is this: Using WSJT-X 2.5.4 under OSX 10.13.6, the arrows on the > 'Set TX freq to RX freq' and 'Set RX freq to TX freq' buttons are not the > same size. > > <Screen Shot 2022-01-14 at 1.19.21 PM.png> > > As you can see, the up-arrow button is much larger than the down-arrow, even > though the arrow glyph itself seems smaller. > > I found the definitions of the buttons 'pbT2R' and 'pbR2T' in > https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/widgets/mainwindow.ui > <https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/widgets/mainwindow.ui> - > the definitions are identical except that on my Mac, the UTF-8 characters > used to represent the arrows are not rendering to the same size. The > misrendering shows on the page at SF in chrome and Safari as well as if you > cut-and-paste into a unicode-aware editor (TextEdit, Pages, etc). > > I also noted that when the text from the above page (rendered in chrome) is > pasted into TextEdit, the font used for the majority of the text is > Courier/Regular/14. The font for the up-arrow character switches to Courier > New/Regular/14. The down-arrow, however, does NOT seem to trigger a switch to > Courier New/Regular 14, rather it shows as 'Fixed/14' with no typeface > chosen. If I force the down-arrow font to Courier New/Regular/14, the glyph > changes to the same size as the up arrow. I cannot force the down-arrow font > to Courier/Regular/14 - it will not accept that, as if the glyph is not in > that font. > > Something is afoot with font handling on OSX. I tried a few other fonts in > TextEdit: > > Fonts that render the arrows with different sizes: American Typewriter, > Avenir, Courier, Bank Gothic, Baskerville, Bodoni, Cochin, Copperplate, etc > > Fonts that render the arrows with the same size: Andale Mono, Arial, > Chalkboard, Comic Sans, Courier New, Times New Roman, etc > > Unfortunately the other up- and down-arrows in the unicode space (23F6, 23F7, > 2BC5, 2BC6) are in miscellaneous pages that are seemingly not present in many > fonts. > > Image clip of definition of the SMALL UP ARROW: > > <Screen Shot 2022-01-14 at 1.08.48 PM.png> > > Image clip of definition of the LARGE DOWN ARROW: > > <Screen Shot 2022-01-14 at 1.09.07 PM.png> > > Thanks for reading this far! > > 73, K4DET > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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