What is new in Snow Leopard?
These are the most important font and text related improvements in Mac OS X 10.6: • The core operating system routines have a number of new or updated text handling mechanisms. • There is a built-in spell checker. • The ‘Substitutions’ mechanism can automatically replace text, for instance replacing (c) by © or TM by TM. • Improved support for bidirectional text makes it easier to mix left-to-right text with text from languages such as Hebrew or Arabic that are written right to left. • Unicode is upgraded to version 5.1. • The ‘Font smoothing style’ option in System Preferences > Appearances no longer has ‘Light’, ‘Medium’ and ‘Strong’ settings but only a checkbox to enable or disable font anti-aliasing. Many people dislike this simplification. There are even third party monitors for which this option incorrectly isn’t displayed. A work-around is available here. • There are a set of new fonts included in Snow Leopard: Menlo, a fixed width typeface • The most interesting one is called M
