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From: pugh@bodn.cs.cornell.edu (William Pugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite -- obliqued cursors are a major pain
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Date: 6 Jun 88 14:12:46 GMT
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Reply-To: pugh@svax.cs.cornell.edu (William Pugh)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY
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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