Re: Text label mis-sizing / clipping

[Alexander Malmberg]

It's a known issue, and there are a couple of different causes. Some of 
these are caused by -gui bugs (due to mismatches in NSButtonCell (that I 
fixed once already, and added a bit of margin to avoid these problems, 
but recent changes there have been messy; I'm working on fixing all 
that, though)).

Those fixes just ensure that auto-sizing interfaces work, though. Some 
views (eg. menus) are inherently auto-sizing, so they never have any 
problems with this. Interfaces that hard-code coordinates will still 
have problems.

Although applications can specify the font and font size, standard fonts 
may resolve to different actual fonts on different systems, so "System 
Font 12pt" might be rendered as "Helvetica 12pt" on some systems and as 
"Vera Sans 12pt" on other systems, and these have very different 
metrics. Generally, interfaces use standard fonts, and I consider this a 
good thing, but it means that they won't handle all possible font 
choices unless they're auto-sizing.

Anyway, although neat flamewars are possible based on this, I'll just 
state my recommendations:

1. Create auto-sizing interfaces.
2. Design for Vera Sans (since Vera Sans is large enough that most other 
fonts, and at least all standard choices for system font, will fit).

- Alexander Malmberg