On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 08:51 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Alex Milowski wrote: >> When inserting characters from the 0x2100 code page (letter like >> symbols), the baseline >> for the whole line drops and cuts off the base of all the font glyphs >> on that line. >> Further, when using certain letter like symbol code points (e.g. >> 0x2133), the glyph >> presented in the view fluctuates depending on where the cursor is >> positioned and when >> scrolling. >> I'm on a Mac and this might be a font issue for that code page. > > I was able to reproduce the baseline problem, but not the fluctuation > problem, on our Mac. > > There is no problem at all on Linux and on Windows (that is, with Sun > Java). Therefore this is probably: > > * A bug in Apple Java. > > * OR, more likely, XXE is written using a Java API which is not well > supported on the Mac. Note that XXE exclusively uses *basic* APIs such > as FontMetrics.getDescent() and FontMetrics.stringWidth(string). > > I'm affraid there is not much we can do, except report the problem to > Apple. >
Actually, if it helps, this problem shows up in Netscape 7.1 as well. Alex Milowski FAX: (707) 598-7649 alex at milowski.com "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
