[oXygen-user] editor font

Lou Burnard lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk
Wed Aug 3 06:01:50 CDT 2016


Hi Radu

Thanks for the informative (and rapid)  response!

L


On 03/08/16 11:52, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:
> Hi Lou,
>
> An operating system has both physical fonts and logical fonts. A 
> logical font can map various parts of its range to various other 
> physical fonts:
>
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/text/fonts.html
>
> Oxygen is a Java application and it has access to an array of fonts, 
> some logical (like "Monospaced" and "Serif") and other physical.
> So "Monospaced" probably uses a variety of physical fonts for various 
> character range intervals. But as an application running on top of 
> this abstraction we do not really know how the operating system 
> combines ranges for a monospaced font.
>
> Regards,
> Radu
>
> Radu Coravu
> <oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
> On 8/3/2016 1:33 PM, Lou Burnard wrote:
>> When I look at the dialogue for setting fonts, it says that by default i
>> am using a font family called "Monospaced" for the editor. How can I
>> find out which actual font is being used? (I'd like to know because it
>> seems to have many characters which other fonts don't, notably OCS
>> characters). Or is it a font specific to oXygen?
>>
>>
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