Ovation Pro 2.78e 17 December 2020


RISC OS fonts use the period (dot,point,full stop) to mark off font sub names:

Homerton.Medium

Windows fonts on the other hand use the space character

Homerton Medium

The Windows version of Ovation Pro has always understood this, and will match spaces in font names
to periods. Whilst it was always my intention to allow the RISC OS version to do the same it seems
I never got around to it.

In this version font names on the computer with periods in will match references in the document to
fonts with spaces.

This matters when you move documents between Windows and RISC OS and have the same fonts on both. Until
this change moving a document from RISC OS to Windows would cause no problems, but going in the other direction
would raise a font missing error.

Ovation Pro document files contain a list of the font names used in the document.

Font mapping on the Windows version of Ovation Pro is a solution to the problem of different font names on different
systems, and font mapping allows you to control the name used for the font in the document file. But using font mapping is 
complicated because a font known to Ovation Pro cannot be mapped to itself. You have to set up ignore rules for the font first.

The feature of matching periods and spaces means that a document which has been edited on RISC OS and Windows will contain

Homerton Medium

and

Homerton.Medium

font names, even though these are the same font. As far as I know this does not cause problems.

