Success installing Windows v2.2.1; first impressions (and some bugs)

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Tue Aug 21 13:51:08 EDT 2007


On 21 Aug 2007 at 18:45, I said:

> On 21 Aug 2007 at 17:37, I said:
> 
> > On 21 Aug 2007 at 11:03, Derek Atkins said:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > "John Roberts" <textpxy at hotmail.com> writes:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > > -- In the reconcile window, the symbolunder the "R" column that
> > > > probably should be a check-mark is just a bit of a squiggly line.  I
> > > > think the checkmark is too large to fit into the space allocated and
> > > > as a result is being cropped.
> > > 
> > > This is probably a windows-only thing.  It looks fine for me on Linux.
> > 
> > It's probably a font thing. It looks fine for me on Windows. At least,
> > it does on 2.2.0; I haven't finished downloading 2.2.1 yet.
> 
> Spoke too soon, sort of. Having installed 2.2.1, I see it's using 
> different (smaller) fonts, and the mark is indeed reduced to a squiggle.
> 
> If anyone knows where I should look for the relevant config data, I would
> dearly like to change back to the old font. The new one is too small for
> my screen.

OK, found it; it's (now) using the Windows settings. Specifically, the 
text in the reconcile window (and the registers) uses the setting for 
"message box", which on my system was Tahoma 8. Changing it to Tahoma 10 
results in a better-looking mark in the reconcile windoe's "R" column.




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