Clip books again

[Mike Olds]

Hello,

I am really sorry that I need to keep bringing up problems with the clip books, but this is my work and there are serious problems.

This time it is with Greek characters. The font used for the Clip books displays the gliphs so small as to render them impossible to differentiate one from the other.

α ᾅ ᾇ ἇ ᾃ ἃ � � ᾱ ᾴ ᾷ ᾶ ᾄ ᾆ ᾂ ᾀ ᾲ ᾰ ᾳ ἅ ά ἄ ἆ ἂ ἀ ά ὰ
(I can't show this problem well as the characters do show up properly when rendered in a reasonable size, but you can get an idea from this, or paste these into a new clip book and take a look for yourself.)

So with Greek and Divangari characters unreadable what use the Clipboard now has is very limited.

[AmigoJack]

I guess it should not be a major problem to "just" implement settings for those windows (Clip Library, Document Selector...) to adjust font and size (and tab width).

Or at least implement a modern zoom feature: CTRL+MOUSEWHEEL will then increase or decrease the font size just in time for the underlying context (i.e. Clip Library or the editor content in general).

Cross linking Suggestion: Separate Clip Library Fonts from 2+ years ago.

[Mike Olds]

Thank you for your attention to this.

I can hope.

Meanwhile my work around is to set up an html page with a large font that I can either use directly or use to identify the character in the Clip book.

EDIT: One solution I can see for this particular problem (insertion of Unicode Characters) would be the addition of a word-processor-like "Insert Special Character" tool.

It would be even better if such a tool could accept user content.

I just looked at one of my character-insert clip books through a magnifying glass and a zoom tool would also be helpful.

[bbadmin]

I thought we'd fixed this small font issue in the latest release of TextPad. I've not been able to reproduce it with this new clip library of Greek characters which you can download from https://www.textpad.com/file?path=addon ... /greek.zip.

Try selecting the ANSI character clib library, then restarting TextPad, before opening the Greek one. Does that make any difference?

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

[Mike Olds]

Hello Keith,

OK. I followed your instructions and both my own Greek .tcl and Devangari tcl are now just readable.

I also tried selecting another book besides the ANSI one and restarted TP and the larger sizes were retained. So this was apparently a one-shot adjustment.

Thank you for your attention to this!

[bbadmin]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for reporting back!