pugh@bodn.cs.cornell.edu (William Pugh) (06/06/88)
I've encountered a major problem with FullWrite that will keep me from making much use of it. In FullWrite, they added a "neat feature" so that when the cursor is in italic text, the cursor is obliqued the same as the text. This is a good idea, because otherwise it is hard to see where the cursor is. HOWEVER, Adobe has made available italic, bold, and bold-italic bitmap versions of their fonts. When these fonts are installed, you get true italic, true-bold, and true-bold-italic characters on your screen. Italic characters are not the same as obliqued characters. With the italic fonts, a regular vertical cursor works best. The reasons I installed the italic bitmaps is that not only can you read them, but also because they work well with the standard vertical cursor. THE PROBLEM is that using an obliqued cursor with italic bitmap fonts is horrible, even worse than using a vertical cursor with an obliqued font. To make FullWrite usable, they must either detect when italic bitmaps are being used and disable obliqued cursors automatically, or allow the user to turn off obliqued cursors. P.S. If anybody wants to get any of the italic, bold and italic-bold fonts, you can contact Adobe, or download from CompuServe (GO ADOBE). I don't think its legal for me to repost them or send them to people, so you're have to obtain them yourselves. Bill Pugh Cornell University
jmm@thoth5.berkeley.edu (06/06/88)
You should be able to use ResEdit to remove the oblique cursor from FullWrite. Just replace it with the standard I-bar. James Moore | B'fhearr don net mura mbeadh jmm@bartleby.berkeley.edu | Bearla ar bith ann. #airigh "leithsceal caighdeanach" | :-)
pugh@bodn.cs.cornell.edu (William Pugh) (06/07/88)
In article <10605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> jmm@thoth5.berkeley.edu writes: >You should be able to use ResEdit to remove the oblique cursor from FullWrite. >Just replace it with the standard I-bar. Nice idea, but that only fixes half the problem. When I replace the oblique mouse cursor, the cursor associated with the mouse is never obliqued, which is nice. However, the cursor that shows the text insertion point is still obliqued, which is the bigger problem. I took a brief look through FullWrite but could not find any resource that seemed to correspond to an obliqued text insertion marker. Bill Pugh