Spacing bug in Author mode, oXygen 9.1

Post by **dsewell** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:20 pm

I'm running standalone oXygen 9.1 (build 2007122116) under OS X. I'm finding a bug in space rendering in Author view with a simple TEI document where there is a <hi> tag following UTF-8 quotation marks. I haven't spent time playing around to see whether other non-ASCII characters cause the same behavior. What I'm seeing on screen is shown in this screen grab: http://lister.ei.virginia.edu/~drs2n/spacing.png. Clicking inside the "bad" paragraph causes the spacing to jump around.

This is using the default CSS associated with TEI files. The sample XML file:

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<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">

  <!-- a simple TEI Lite file demonstrating a bug in oXygen XML space handling -->

  <teiHeader>

    <fileDesc>

      <titleStmt>

        <title>Test document</title>

        <author>David Sewell, dsewell@virginia.edu</author>

      </titleStmt>

      <publicationStmt>

        <p>unpublished</p>

      </publicationStmt><sourceDesc>

        <p>original</p>

      </sourceDesc></fileDesc>

  </teiHeader>

  <text>

    <body>

      <div>

        <p>This is a paragraph.</p>

      </div>

      <div>

        <note n="1" xml:id="n1">

          <p>This is a note. It has a word in <hi rend="italic">italics</hi>

            here. This paragraph is okay when you click inside and

            edit it.</p>

        </note>

        <note n="2" xml:id="n2">

          <p>This paragraph has text inside â€œUnicode quotation marksâ€ and

            then <hi rend="italic">italics</hi> like so. Are the spacing 

            and editing okay, or not?</p>

        </note>

      </div>

    </body>

  </text>

</TEI>

Post by **dsewell** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:23 pm

I'm running OS X 10.4.11, with Java version 1.5.0_13

Post by **dsewell** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:45 am

I just tried this on another machine running OS X 10.5.1, and I do not see the buggy behavior.

Post by **george** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:16 pm

Hi David,

We were also not able to reproduce the issue and we tested on a few operating systems.
It may be a font related problem, if we get wrong information when we ask the width of the rendered text and thus we display the following inline block of text at a different location than expected.

Best Regards,
George

Post by **Dan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:19 pm

I tried on my Mac 10.5.1 and on a 10.4.11 and I could not reproduce it.

I think there is a problem with some fonts on that computer. I've seen cases in which some fonts report larger metrics than real, and the layout gets a bit out of the sync.

You could try opening the file frameworks/tei/xml/tei/css/tei.css and change the used fonts. Search for "font-family" and replace all the values with:

font-family:roman, 'times new roman', times, serif;

Regards,
Dan

Post by **dsewell** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:24 pm

Dan wrote:I tried on my Mac 10.5.1 and on a 10.4.11 and I could not reproduce it.

I think there is a problem with some fonts on that computer. I've seen cases in which some fonts report larger metrics than real, and the layout gets a bit out of the sync.

You could try opening the file frameworks/tei/xml/tei/css/tei.css and change the used fonts. Search for "font-family" and replace all the values with:

font-family:roman, 'times new roman', times, serif;

I was able to fix this on my system by editing tei_oxygen.css and adding

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font-family: Georgia

to the "TEI, body" definition. (I prefer Georgia in any case.) So it does appear to be a font metric problem with this particular configuration of Java + OS X.

Spacing bug in Author mode, oXygen 9.1

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