very different width for space character when not using screen fonts
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Hi everyone,
I've a small mystery on my hands. When displaying text in the Italic
Garamond font via an NSLayoutManager that has screen fonts disabled
the horizontal space allocated for a normal space (good old 0x20) is
too large.
Here's a screenshot with screen fonts are enabled: [layoutManager
setUsesScreenFonts:YES]And the exact same text when screen fonts are disabled:
[layoutManager setUsesScreenFonts:NO]Hopefully the images come through and you can see the space grows to
nearly double the width.
I don't expect this is something I'll be able to work around, but
even if I just wanted to report it to Apple, is this a problem with
the font itself or the layout system? Any thoughts?
~Martin -
On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote:> I don't expect this is something I'll be able to work around, but
> even if I just wanted to report it to Apple, is this a problem with
> the font itself or the layout system? Any thoughts?
Most likely this is a font issue, but go ahead and file a bug and
we'll track it down.
Douglas Davidson -
On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Martin Wierschin wrote:> Hi everyone,
>
> I've a small mystery on my hands. When displaying text in the Italic
> Garamond font via an NSLayoutManager that has screen fonts disabled
> the horizontal space allocated for a normal space (good old 0x20) is
> too large.
>
I found a similar issue that doesn't involve screen fonts but rather
non-breaking spaces. In Hoefler Text, they are about three times as
wide as a normal space. It's the only font I've found with that
behavior. I filed a bug (4633146), thinking it was a problem with the
font, but the bug was closed without action; I can't remember exactly
why, but they said it was not an issue with the font.
Ross Carter
