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Re: Using Numerals

Adam T — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:13:07 -0000

I figured it out. It worked when I specified "Bickham Script Pro Regular" instead of "Bickham Script Pro" as FontFamily. It looks that Avalon Beta 1 running in Windows XP SP-2 uses a different set of font names than Avalon running in Longhorn that you presumably use (name id 1 vs. 16). Might be worth looking at.

Regards,
Adam

Re: Using Numerals

Adam T — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:48:29 -0000

I use Windows XP SP-2 where I've installed the Avalon Beta 1 and the corresponding WinFX SDK. I'm testing the XAML samples in XAMLPad but somehow cannot get most of my system-installed fonts to show up in the XAML. works fine but does not (the font is, of course, installed in Windows XP's system folder. The only way I actually got Bickham Script Pro to render *somehow* in Avalon is but of course this is not the idea.

Is there some additional magic I need to do so the XAMLPad output sees all the fonts installed on my system? Alternatively, is there a way to reference URIs in the FontFamily attribute?

Adam

Re: Using Numerals

Kevin Daly — Sun, 29 May 2005 17:17:09 -0000

Sorry, *ascenders (crap keyboard).

Re: Using Numerals

Kevin Daly — Sat, 28 May 2005 17:39:25 -0000

That's great news about the font licensing if it goes ahead: I've been suffering serious font envy ever since I started reading your blog.

As for the difference, I'm woefully ignorant of typography, but in the second example it looks as if the numerals are rendered as lower-case characters with acenders and descenders, and in the first example they're um, not.