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Re: Possible Bug in Macwrite

Posted: December 20th, 1984, 12:18 am
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Subject: Re: Possible Bug in Macwrite
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Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 13:35:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 17 13:35:16 1984
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From: tektronix!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucsbcsl!ucsbcsl![email protected]
With reference to Macwrite hanging when there are many font changes and
point sizes on the same line: I am plagued by this problem using both
Princeton and Omnibus/Omnisci fonts. Example, I use a 24pt bold contour
integral symbol(omnisci) interspersed with regular 12pt. text. If I position
the cursor after the contour integral symbol, the machine sometimes accesses
the disk repeatedly until I move the cursor somewhere else. The only way to
deal with the problem is to delete the text in question. The problem is not
related to memory - I have run into the same problem when beginning with a
new file.

This bug makes writing equations very difficult sometimes, and it should
be fixed.

R.A. Iltis
UC Santa Barbara ECE Dept.