[1983] in testers
Re: EZ doesn't recognize symbola anymore?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jun 1 18:49:42 1992
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 92 18:28:37
From: wdc@MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
To: kcunning@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@Athena.MIT.EDU, wdc@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-olh@Athena.MIT.EDU
The style AndySymbola is now supported as Symbola.
I have noticed that a VERY FEW files, which were created a long time
ago by doing "Insert template", "Symbol" that they explicitly define
"Symbola" to be the unsupported "AndySymbola" font.
I appologize for this incompatible change. I'm not sure what the
exact reason for it is. I think it is two subtle things they did at
CMU: Direct support of the Symbola style, and a subtle change in
the Font name parsing code that causes "AndySymbola" to be
mis-understood to be a nonexistant font.
I recommend using EZ raw mode to read in these old files and removing
the superfluous definition of the Symbola font.
I'll also send off hate mail to CMU for breaking the font name parsing
code.
-wdc
