Re: Two Concerns

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 05/06/2002 11:41:24

> 1) Lines are allowed to break at changes in character attributes. This

> allows a superscript or subscript to be at the beginning of a line instead

> of being attached to its root character at the end of the previous line.

> This is not acceptable behavior.

Yes, I know, but I had not time to fix it...

> 2) When changing fonts, such as, from Times New Roman to Symbol (for one

> character) and back to Times New Roman, the baselines are not lined up.

> While it is readable, it is also very annoying. Such character alignments

> are controlled by Windows graphics and can be set to baseline alignment

with

> a windows api call. When I tried this, it failed to solve the problem.

Does

> Richview set character positioning to upper left corner when it draws the

> screen, overriding my previous call to set it to baseline? If so, it

should

> be changed to baseline rendering. I use baseline rendering in my code for

> mathematical typesetting and it eliminates the annoying vertical shift in

> characters caused by changing fonts.

I do not undertand you here.

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