Very interesting. I have these font-y lines in my .ini file. I take it the first is for astronomical data, the second for the RX lists, and the last for the rest of the UI.
Now that I know where I can manually revert things, I'll try a few fonts. Thanks! [Astro] font="Courier,18,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0" [Configuration] DecodedTextFont="Courier,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0" Font=".Lucida Grande UI,13,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0" > On Jan 15, 2022, at 3:30 PM, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel > <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi David, > > I think that the font panel doesn’t show the font when .AppleSystemUIFont is > the selected font. You can look inside the WSJT-X.ini file to see what font > you have selected. Offhand, I have it set to 12 point. The ini file is in > ~/Library/Preferences/WSJT-X.ini. > > alex K6LOT > > >> On Jan 15, 2022, at 5:08 AM, David Tiller via wsjt-devel >> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> Alex, >> >> Thanks again for the reply - I must be an idiot; I searched for a font >> chooser in WSJT-X before I went on the OS font wild goose chase. I didn't >> even see that! >> >> Interestingly, when I click on 'Font', it shows the following - note that no >> Family is selected (I scrolled all the way down - nada)!!! Do you know what >> it's supposed to be, or at least what you have selected for a font? >> >> 73, K4DET >> >> <Screen Shot 2022-01-15 at 8.03.30 AM.png> >> >>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel >>> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>> >>> Hi David, >>> >>> You want to take a look at the font for WSJT-X, I was thinking perhaps you >>> changed it in order to reproduce this bug. >>> >>> Here’s where to look (in the Preferences for WSJT-X): >>> >>> <Screen Shot 2022-01-14 at 6.51.32 PM.png> >>> >>> alex K6LOT >>> >>>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 6:13 PM, David Tiller via wsjt-devel >>>> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Alex, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the reply. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure where in OSX 10.13.6 to look, but according to this page ( >>>> https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/12661/whats-the-font-in-mac-os-xs-gui >>>> ) the default font is San Francisco. I don't think I've changed it. >>>> >>>> I cannot find SanFrancisco listed anywhere in the choices available to >>>> TextEdit, but I do see a lot of files named SF*.otf in >>>> /System/Library/Fonts which I assume are San Francisco OpenType font >>>> files. I also see SF OpenType fonts listed in SystemInformation/Fonts with >>>> many in the family "System Font" - all mention SanFrancisco in the >>>> Copyright. >>>> >>>> Lucida Grande displays the two arrows with different sizes. >>>> >>>> If you'd like to take this offline from the group, email me at mycall @ >>>> arrl . net. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jan 14, 2022, at 2:58 PM, Alex Lelievre via wsjt-devel >>>>> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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 >>>>>> - 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 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> wsjt-devel mailing list >>>>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> wsjt-devel mailing list >>>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> wsjt-devel mailing list >>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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