Fonts: Improve ()^ glyphs
The parentheses strokes were a single pixel wide, which is much
narrower than most other glyphs. And the caret was so minimal it was
almost invisible.
Beef up these glyphs.
but doesn’t show the change. Anybody have more info? I’m curious as to how such an issue could have been present for almost 4 decades and on whether this really would have been better on the monitors of the day.
The name makes this sound like a more widely used and 'official' product than it really was - on the 8 bit Apple, this is a pretty niche thing. It's not the interface anybody (statistically) was actually using to interact with an Apple //ish computer.
Very few people used Apple II Desktop back then. To really be useful, you'd need a hard disk, which wasn't that common, and ProDOS software, which wasn't common either. ProDOS is also a single-task OS and Apple II software expect to have the full machine under its control (not sure Apple II Desktop has interfaces to build GUI apps for it - would be fun). All that ProDOS provides is a hook you call when the app exits so that a program launcher can be reloaded (which is, IIRC, what Apple II Desktop does).
The commit (https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d/commit/c14e14f51af3b055c1e60c...) says
Fonts: Improve ()^ glyphs The parentheses strokes were a single pixel wide, which is much narrower than most other glyphs. And the caret was so minimal it was almost invisible.
Beef up these glyphs.
but doesn’t show the change. Anybody have more info? I’m curious as to how such an issue could have been present for almost 4 decades and on whether this really would have been better on the monitors of the day.