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Old 03-27-2003, 12:24 PM   #17
kstuart
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Location: Northern California
Device: Clie NR70
Hello,

I'm using iSilo v3.3 and the iSiloX beta v3.35b1b (neither is registered) on a Clie NR70 (PalmOS 4.1).

As far as the categories go, the iSiloX properties for a particular document says "Use category - News".

After hotsyncing, the document is in "Unfiled". If I change the category of the document in iSilo on the PDA to "News", it is then in "News".

Okay, now for Fonts. I played around with it some more and what I think is going on is that it uses 4 fonts (as described in the Isilo support web site):

Quote:
On devices with a 320x320 resolution or 240x320 resolution screen, four font sizes are available: tiny, small, standard, and large. The following is the default mapping assuming that the current display options have the font set to standard and relative mode:

tiny: If the font size is less than 9pt.
small: If the font size is at least 9pt but less than 12pt.
standard: If the font size is at least 12pt but less than 14pt.
large: If the font size is 14pt or greater.
The problem is that I'm pretty sure that some of these are mapped to "standard" fonts and some to "HR" fonts.

The evidence is that if I change the "Standard" setting in FontHack, then some of the fonts in my documents change. And (contrary to what I said above), if I change the "HRstandard" setting in FontHack, then other fonts change. (The reason I didn't notice this is that the ones that changed with "Standard" were the thin ones that I needed to change, and the ones that changed with "HRstandard" were not the ones I was trying to change, so I didn't notice the change).

It's likely that the reason you think it works (assuming that the N760C uses the same font setup for iSilo) is that none of your documents use particularly small fonts that you have tried to change.

One thing that I now positively know, which is the big problem, is that the Menus use "Standard" for the left column, and "HRstandard" for the right column. This means that any change to either font using FontHack123 will change the Menus - which are already fine, and become totally messed up if I use a "Standard" font that looks right in the Documents.

My guess is that iSilo is using something like:

tiny - Standard
small - Large
standard - HRstandard
large - HRlarge

This is with "relative" font sizes.

As I mentioned there is an additional oversight that makes "Absolute" difficult to use, in that "Bold" is not implemented when "Absolute" is selected, ie it uses that one font in all places, and does not use the Bold version of that font when called for. (Otherwise, I might be able to live with Absolute for certain daily News documents.)
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