Re: Symbol font

FROM : Chris Ridd
DATE : Thu Jan 02 18:29:57 2003

On 2/1/03 4:45 pm, Mike Ferris <<email_removed>> wrote:

> The Cocoa text system's "font fixing" will look for a font that has
> visual properties similar to the font assigned to a character if it has
> to find a different font.  It takes into account such things as weight,
> italics, serif/sans-serif, etc...  Obviously this is a slightly fuzzy
> process.  So if you have 5 fonts with the Kappa character, you should
> get the one that is closest in appearance to the font that was assigned
> to the character.
>
> Mike


Is it tunable? I could imagine that extremely fancy typesetting systems
would have a different (and possibly user-controlled) idea of what is
appropriate than Cocoa's text system.

Cheers,

Chris
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