Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-31 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Bug report 19040 /Do Your Ears Hang Low?// //Do They Wobble to and Fro?// //Can You Tie Them in a Knot?// //Can You Tie Them in a Bow?// //Can You Throw Them Over Your Shoulder Like a Continental Soldier?/ Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The font that Richmond is using is his Devawriter.ttf font that has now had Grantha conjunct glyphs in a private use area . . . Richmond. On 12/30/16 6:49 pm, Bob Sneidar wrote: What is the font Richmond is trying to use? Having played around a lot with fonts in my early Mac days, I became aw

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
What is the font Richmond is trying to use? Having played around a lot with fonts in my early Mac days, I became aware that font foundries of lesser repute may not craft their fonts properly. If the line height and leading is not set to accomodate both the tallest ascender and the lowest descend

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-29 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I tried with a field set to zapfino (the most vertically expansive font I have) 14, text height 6. I’m seeing that in LC 8.1.2 on Mac, that with the field fixed line height off things look right, showing wide line height and no attenuation. With fixed line height on, LC pushes all the text off

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
No: the lineHeight is not set to fixed. Richmond. On 12/29/16 7:16 pm, Stephen Barncard wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a field. also is your line height set for fixed? -- Stephen Barncard -

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-29 Thread Stephen Barncard
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a > field. > also is your line height set for fixed? -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org ___ use-livecod

Re: Hanging from the washing line.

2016-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
I search for textH in the dictionary and find textHeight, a property of a field. Bob S On Dec 29, 2016, at 09:01 , Richmond Mathewson mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am using a font that has "descenders" that descend extremely low below the 'normal' writing line, and as such get