Re: Pointless 2.01

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1rnmasINN46s@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>, Lawrence S Lee writes...
> 
> Reinstall all 174, and the menus mess up.  Obviously there's some
> correlation here.
> 
> Has anyone else come across this problem? Any fixes?

    Yeah, use less fonts.  ;-)  I'm 100% certain you don't use 174 fonts
on a regular basis.  Maybe three or four.  This is what my Fonts folder
looks like (the wonders of pipe-command in MuGS and uemacs, heh heh):

:Calvin:System:Fonts:
   2 Apple.II.09        3 Garamond.12I       1 Monaco*
   1 AvantGarde*        1 GaramondNarrow*    3 Monostrike.09
   1 Bookman*           1 Geneva*            7 More.Truetypes/
   1 Courier*           1 Helvetica*         1 NewCentSchlbk*
  29 FastFont           2 Label.06           1 NewHelvNarrow*
   1 Finder.Data        3 Lucida.10          4 NewHelvNrrw.14
   1 Font.Lists         3 Lucida.10B         8 NewHelvNrrw.24
   3 Garamond.10        4 Lucida.10BI        3 PC.MS.10
   3 Garamond.10B       3 Lucida.10I         1 Palatino*
   3 Garamond.10BI      4 Lucida.12          1 Symbol*
   3 Garamond.10I       4 Lucida.12B         1 Times*
   3 Garamond.12        4 Lucida.12BI        4 TrueType.List 
   4 Garamond.12B       4 Lucida.12I         1 ZapfDingbats*
   4 Garamond.12BI      1 LucidaBright*

    Filenames marked with an asterisk are my Truetypes.  The rest of
pre-generated bitmaps for speed.  These 13 fonts will fit on a Font menu
with minimal or no scrolling.  What do you do if you want to use Times
or Zapf Dingbats on your 174-item font menu?!?!?  I keep all the rest of
my fonts (almost 300 of them) in the "More.Truetypes", split into five
folders by name.  I actually only really use four fonts:  Garamond
Narrow, Lucida Bright, Avant Garde and New Helvetica Narrow.
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