textFont: seeing is believing (Transcript is not)

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jul 27 18:40:37 EDT 2004


Wouter wrote:
> FWIW
> 
> setting the textFont of this stack to "0"
> will set it to "0"
> 
> and when asked :
> 
>>   put the effective textFont of this stack
>>
> it will indeed return "0"
> 
> but...
> 
> setting the textFont of this stack to ""   -- empty
> 
> and then asking
> 
> will return the the effective textFont.
> or the default font.
> On my rig it is Helvetica

Helvetica is the engine's default font, not the default system font of 
the Mac or Windows OS.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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