Subject: Re: commit: Fixed the last of the screen artifacts. (fwd)
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 03:42:47 CDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Lachowicz" <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu>
To: "Thomas Fletcher" <thomasf@qnx.com>
Cc: "Patrick Lam" <plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu>; <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: commit: Fixed the last of the screen artifacts. (fwd)
> Quoting Thomas Fletcher <thomasf@qnx.com>:
>
> Word, brother. The problem is on our end. We don't use any font metric data
and
> assume fixed widths for chars, which is horribly wrong for an application
whose
> job is (primarily) to mark up text. We need to honor kerning data and other
> such things that we currently don't.
See <URL: http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=949 >.
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Karl Ove Hufthammer
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