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Posted by Charlie   (2 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Wed 04 Jul 2001 11:06 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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When viewing bold characters output from TinyMUSH 3 (in fixedsys 9) the bold characters are being displayed as wider then the normal character font, throwing off the formatting of everything on that line.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (15,683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 05 Jul 2001 12:42 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Depending on the font bold characters may well be wider.

You can fix this by going into World Configuration -> Appearance -> Output and uncheck "Show bold".
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Charlie   (2 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 05 Jul 2001 06:58 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Well, that's not the solution I had in mind. I've seen bold handled correctly in Fixedsys 9, and bold is used quite often in many MUSHes.

Also, someone I spoke to have a version prior to 3.1 and said that he did not have the bold width problem--leading me to believe it was a bug.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (15,683 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 05 Jul 2001 10:31 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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OK, there are two sorts of bold here:

  • Bold font (typeface)
  • Bold colour

Many MUDs (and MUSHes) use bold to effectively get another set of 8 colours (there are 8 'normal' ANSI colours and 8 'bold' ones). So by mixing bold and normal you effectively get a choice of 16 colours.

MUSHclient supports this, and even with 'show bold' unchecked you will still get the other 8 colours.

However the bold typeface is something that is a bit problematic, because in FixedSys it *is* wider. Just to prove the point, I have taken a paragraph from a SMAUG area and pasted it into WordPad, selected FixedSys font, 9 point, and then bolded one paragraph but not the other.

Example of fixedsys 9 point in bold and normal - 71K

You can clearly see that the bold paragraph is wider, which is exactly what happens in MUSHclient, and has in all previous versions. Now the extra width can:

  • Be annoying
  • Throw out fixed-width spacing

This is why MUSHclient offers you the choice to not 'show bold'.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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