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Why is there odd enlarged line-spacing when I use Bosporos or Kadmos is some OS X programs?

April 26, 2017kadmos odd Programs

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Why is there odd enlarged line-spacing when I use Bosporos or Kadmos is some OS X programs?

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This has been found to occur for some users with Kadmos and Bosporos postscript fonts (from Allotype Typographics; not Traditional GreekKeys products) in TextEdit, Mellel, and NisusWriter Express. For some reason, these programs (which are apparently drawing upon the same aspect of the system-level text engine) change their interpretation of single-spacing as soon as the font is changed to one of these. Only Mellel is able to recover from this error, since it is possible to restate the line-spacing in the paragraph format palette by giving a measure in points (such as 14 or 15) rather than in lines. It is unclear whether this is something that could be fixed within the fonts or is some kind of bug in the OS. It does not occur, fortunately, in Word 2004. UPDATE (Dec. 2004): these fonts now belong to the APA; the spacing problem does not occur in the new versions that are intended as workarounds for another problem. Return to top.