Re: Cursor bug in mathematica 3
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- Subject: [mg21764] Re: Cursor bug in mathematica 3
- From: sidles at u.washington.edu (John A. Sidles)
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 22:56:44 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <86g17h$heg at smc.vnet.net>, Atul Sharma <atulksharma at yahoo.com> wrote: >I had the same problem when I upgraded to System 8.1. The Appearance >Extension can be updated with a fix from Wolfram. This took care of the >problem, but it sounds as if you may be out of luck if you're using OS 8.5+ >(short of restarting the session, which is effective but annoying). > >The faq and fix are described: > >If you're using Mathematica under MacOS 8.0 (or later) and the fonts aren't >appearing correctly (i.e. characters overlap or spaces disappear), you might >be running into a MacOS 8.0-specific bug. Please see the following web page >for more information. ...This patch is not compatible with MacOS 8.5 and >8.6. We are continuing to work on a solution for these problems under that >version of MacOS. > >http://support.wolfram.com/Systems/Macintosh/FE/AppearancePatch.html Hey! To my certain knowledge, you Wolfram guys have been "continuing to work on a solution" to this problem for more than a year ... with no solution delivered yet. Don't you think it's reasonable for us to want a progress report? (1) Why is the fix taking so long? (2) When will a fix be released? And if Wolfram Inc. is *not* working on a fix, well ... please show us the courtesy of announcing it on your support web page. This one bug -- and its failure to be fixed in a timely manner -- has caused several of my colleagues at the UW to switch to another system. Unlike me, these faculty members didn't care enough to pester the administrators at Wolfram to do a better job. The sad result is that I am pretty sure that I am the last remaining Mathematica-using professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. A loyal but often-frustrated Mathematica fan ... John Sidles