Charles said:
Thank you for the tip, but could you please explain? I am confused as to
how this might fix a font-design problem.
So am I, but your original query is interesting. I find it quite
difficult to resolve all the provenance and naming malarkey to do with
fonts. I have several Century faces on my machines. One of them
labelled v1.25 shows the too-high hyphens. I think it came with Office
2004 going by its file date match with comic sans, times new roman and
other things that only Microsoft would own up to.
Interestingly, I think mine is mis-named. Apart from the hyphens, it is
identical to Century Schoolbook v 1.6, which also has the same creation
date here. Schoolbook is much more expanded, more rounded and with less
contrast than most of the other Century faces.
If you have Century Schoolbook on your machine, could you compare the
two in Font Book? (Use cmd-3 to display chosen text and type in a
phrase with hyphens)
PS I have just discovered that you can't beat a font to death with a
stick in Leopard. Turning Century off in font book, deleting it,
emptying the trash, threatening it with a chicken carcass all have no
effect. I guess it is buried in a cache somewhere, but cache rebuilds
have gotten *very* scary. All I wanted to do was see what Word 2004
would substitute. But that pesky hyphen is still there, and still
claiming to be Century.
Gaack!
