Author Topic: What could be causing this issue with the font?  (Read 491 times)

SymptomoftheUniverse

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For some reason or another, the apostrophes in "Heaven's Dead" and "Doesn't Remind Me" do not appear, yet they do in the lyrics on the right-hand side. Other fonts show the apostrophes properly, so it seems unlikely that it's a spelling error. But I can't figure out if this is something to do with the font itself or MusicBee, so I decided to ask here.

This is the font in question: https://www.dafont.com/doom.font

tjinc

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Welcome to the forum SymptomoftheUniverse,

Pretty sure this is the font - try it in another application (e.g. Word) and see if the apostrophe is displayed.

SymptomoftheUniverse

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Welcome to the forum SymptomoftheUniverse,

Pretty sure this is the font - try it in another application (e.g. Word) and see if the apostrophe is displayed.

I tried it in Notepad and Word and the apostrophe appears just fine when using the font.

tjinc

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Strange - I just tried it in Word and the apostrophe does not display using the Doom font.
Not sure then. I'll let you know if I think of anything.

SymptomoftheUniverse

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Strange - I just tried it in Word and the apostrophe does not display using the Doom font.
Not sure then. I'll let you know if I think of anything.

Yeah, the page I downloaded it from has the apostrophe in it's character sheet, but some of the titles of songs don't have it when they should despite correct spelling/punctuation. I think it's the only font I've used that has the issue, aside from fonts that are just incomplete. I'm not experienced with technical stuff, but if you can figure it out, I'd really appreciate it.

Steven

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MusicBee uses the older but much faster windows GDI library for rendering but i think some fonts have issues with it. The other apps might be using the GDI plus library.
Certainly MB doesnt do any manipulations for certain characters - it just displays the text as is.

SymptomoftheUniverse

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MusicBee uses the older but much faster windows GDI library for rendering but i think some fonts have issues with it. The other apps might be using the GDI plus library.
Certainly MB doesnt do any manipulations for certain characters - it just displays the text as is.

Is there a way to make the font appear correctly, given that info?

hiccup

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Is there a way to make the font appear correctly, given that info?
I'm sorry to be blunt…
Do you really like that font at the small size that will be available for track details?
I can imagine it could work for for panels that use larger font sizes, but in my opinion it is just a bad font for use at small sizes.

SymptomoftheUniverse

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Is there a way to make the font appear correctly, given that info?
I'm sorry to be blunt…
Do you really like that font at the small size that will be available for track details?
I can imagine it could work for for panels that use larger font sizes, but in my opinion it is just a bad font for use at small sizes.

At 10pts, the font seems readable to me, but it's definitely one where the font size has to be smaller to not take up screen space.