Weird font for default

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Weird font for default

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Danny Weltman

Created: 2025-04-19

Updated: 2025-04-28

Danny Weltman - 2025-04-19

Somehow every time I make a new argument or whatever stuff I type is in a weird font. Selecting the normal font and choosing the "Make this font the default for this database" option doesn't seem to fix it. Attached is a screenshot of the normal font on top and the weird font on the bottom. Pasting as plain text pastes as the normal font. Choosing "Set/update template for this record type" doesn't seem to fix it.

This applies to arguments and positions and problems/debates and works and terms and probably everything else, although I stopped checking there.

I might've hit some keyboard shortcut that caused this in the first place when I was trying to paste text, but I'm not sure.

WeirdFont.png

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Jason Winning - 2025-04-19

Are there any description templates in your database? Look for a "Description templates" folder under the XML folder in your database and see if there are any files in that folder if it exists.

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- Danny Weltman - 2025-04-19
  
  Yes, there are two. One is for concepts the other is for arguments. They both look like this (I tried uploading them but I think the spambot protection on Sourceforge stopped me):
  
  <html dir="ltr"> <head> <style>p { margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; } body { margin-right: 20px; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; } </style> </head> <body contenteditable="true"> <p><br></p> </body> </html>
  
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Jason Winning - 2025-04-27

So this keeps happening when you restart the application?
In your screenshot, the font "Symbol" is showing in the font selector. Does it spontaneously switch the font from Arial to "Symbol", and if so, when does that happen?
Does this happen both when you edit a new record, and when you edit an existing record?

A couple things to try after closing out of Hypernomicon:
1. Delete the "Description templates" folder and its contents under the XML folder in your database (backup the contents if desired)
2. Edit the Settings.xml file in the XML folder. Find the 2 lines that contain "defDescFontFamily" and "defDescFontSize". Note what they say (especially if the family is different from arial), then delete those lines and save the file.

After that, start Hypernomicon again and see if the problem still happens, especially when editing the text for a newly created record. If so, then it doesn't have anything to do with the templates or default font settings.

Last edit: Jason Winning 2025-04-27

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- Danny Weltman - 2025-04-28
  
  At some point it seems to have fixed itself, but I'll do the above-mentioned stuff if it happens again. Thanks!
  
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