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Article #28767Re: The Overbar in the Symbol font
From: Wayne Mesard
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1988 15:09
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1988 15:09
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From article <2808@ut-emx.UUCP>, by jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss):
> In my once favorite Mathematical word processing font, "Princeton"
> there were a number of zero width characters, overbars, dots and carots,
...
> If you do install it, it sometimes causes crashes for example in
> Cricket Draw (even version 1.1). I never could figure out whats
> strange obout this font....(It does have a FOND resouce, though
> all entries are zero...).
Maybe somebody's dividing something by the character's width and causing
a division by zero glitch. Just guessing. Seems unlikely, but, hey, so
do Speed Racer lunch boxes.
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!mesard From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The Overbar in the Symbol font Message-ID: <25245@bbn.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 15:09:42 GMT References: <2808@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 21