[PATCH] Change default MacOS font

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Feb 4 02:31:06 PST 2013


subsurface at henrik.synth.no writes:

> From: Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no>
>
> "Arial Unicode MS" doesn't have bold fonts, at least not on my system.
> This makes it impossible to distinguish trip dives from non-trip dives,
> since dives without at trip have bold index numbers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no>
> ---
>
>
> It would be grand if someone else could verify this on a different MacOS
> system than mine.   Robert?  Dirk?
>
> Henrik 
>
>
>  macos.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/macos.c b/macos.c
> index f78a7c6..c1b73c8 100644
> --- a/macos.c
> +++ b/macos.c
> @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ static GtkosxApplication *osx_app;
>  
>  #define SUBSURFACE_PREFERENCES CFSTR("org.hohndel.subsurface")
>  #define ICON_NAME "Subsurface.icns"
> -#define UI_FONT "Arial Unicode MS 12"
> +#define UI_FONT "Arial 12"
>  
> -const char system_divelist_default_font[] = "Arial Unicode MS 9";
> +const char system_divelist_default_font[] = "Arial 10";

But does Arial 10 have the star symbol and all the languages we support?
I think I picked the Unicode font BECAUSE that was one of the few that
had the stars... and I'm certain that I had bold on my Mac...

/D


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