Re: Bold Script Characters in 6.0.2
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- Subject: [mg86203] Re: Bold Script Characters in 6.0.2
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:55:52 -0500 (EST)
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David Park schrieb: > I wonder how many people see this bug in Version 6.0.2? (I'm on 32-bit > Windows Vista.) > > Type (or paste in from the Special Characters Script palette): > > \[ScriptCapitalF]//TraditionalForm > > and evaluate. Everything should be all right. Then select the output cell > and use Menu, Format, Face, Bold to change the FontWeight to "Bold". The > output cell will go blank and you will obtain a Messages Window with the > error: INTERNAL SELF-TEST ERROR: NoteFont2|c|1783. > > Alternatively, start a Section head and type: This section heading contains > a Script \[ScriptCapitalF]. > Again you will obtain an error message and the Script F will not display. > > This happens for all Bold Script characters, but it does not happen for Bold > Greek, Gothic or DoubleStruck. > > This problem did not occur prior to Version 6.0.2. > > Part of the reason for this behavior can be seen by going to > WolframResearch\Mathematica\SystemFiles\Fonts\TrueType > and looking at Mathematica5.ttf (the Plain Script characters) and > Mathematica5b.ttf (supposedly the Bold Script characters). > The last file contains no characters and this seems to be the case going > back to Version 5.2. > But Mathematica5mb.ttf does appear to have Bold and probably monospaced > characters. > > I don't know what the true source of this problem is or why there was no > problem prior to Version 6.0.2 but it is certainly a bug. > > For me, on Windows Vista, Mathematica 6.0.2 has been the most annoying, > buggy and time consuming non-major update I have ever seen. > > -- > David Park > djmpark at comcast.net > http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ > > > I use Version 6.0.2 (PowerPC 32 bit) on Mac OS X 10.4.11 and here all displays fine. Maybe it's because on Mac Mathematica doesn't use .ttf fonts but Type1 fonts Gruss Peter -- ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de