RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font

["Phil Martin" <Phil@xxxxxxxx>]

Oh dear: I was being even more lazy watching this exchange, thinking, "I
can't remember the ins and outs of this but I'm sure everyone else will
get it right".

If you want me to give an opinion you'll have to give me some time to
read back through the emails. Alternatively ask me and Gerry technical
questions and we can give you pertinent low-level answers for the
higher-level decisions.

Phil 8-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 27 July 2006 12:10
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Current/default font
> 
> Neil Howe wrote:
> > Look at the 1111 bug report. The original change that I 
> described in 
> > the bug report (as we'd agreed in our meeting) was that we should 
> > change both the current and default fonts. In the last 
> comment entered 
> > by Martin on that bug report, he explains why changing the default 
> > font is not a good idea and suggests we change only the 
> current font. 
> > That seems to make sense to me.
> > 
> > So I didn't quite understand Alex's comment. Alex, do you mean that 
> > you still think we should change the default font too, despite the 
> > problem Martin describes?
> > 
> > Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here.
> 
> I was being a bit lazy actually. I just remembered talking 
> about this for an hour or so with Phil carefully explaining 
> what all the attributes did, us discussing the various pros 
> and cons, and coming to the decision concerned. I didn't want 
> to spend another hour thinking about it. I'm happy to go with 
> whatever Phil is happy with as he knows far more about the 
> attribute system than I do.
> 
> I agree that if we change the default attribute to X and the 
> current attribute to X, and this results in /no/ attribute 
> going into the saved document, that would be a bad thing. But 
> I thought Phil had said this wouldn't happen, because an 
> attribute is always saved.
> What we said at the meeting was we didn't want font 
> attributes for fonts that didn't exist hanging around (as a 
> general point).
> If what Martin says is a problem is in fact a problem, then 
> surely a document whose font is in Arial at the moment would 
> have NO attributes saved in it, as (by his logic) the current 
> attribute would have been the default attribute. This means 
> it wouldn't load in Arial in the first place. That doesn't happen.
> 
> But as I said, it was Phil who went through all this and 
> explained all the attributes and how they worked in a manner 
> that convinced me it was right, so I'm happy to go with his call.
> 
> Alex
>