Using 2-bit Fonts

[Kevin Miller]

On 26/3/02 5:20 pm, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

>> I'm building a Japanese language study application and am having problems
>> with the fields containing Japanese 2-bit fonts.
>> 
>> When the contents of a field are in something like Palatino or Helvetica,
>> everything works fine but of course the Japanese looks like nonsense.
>> 
>> When I set the same field and its contents to a Japanese font, like Osaka,
>> the text appears correctly,  but line breaks become wacky, I can't edit the
>> contents of the field, and clicktext and clickchunk return the entire line.
>> 
>> What's up?
> 
> Unfortunately, there are some limitations with double byte character fonts
> in MC/REV:
> 
> 1) They can't be input reliably, only displayed
> 
> 2) They must be manually wrapped using spaces as line breaks

Just to let you know: we're working on these as a high priority for a future
version of Revolution.

Kevin

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