Archive for tag: Cocoa

Nu Blocks and Objective-C Blocks, Part 1

20 February, 2010 (17:57) | General | By: Philip

I hope to devote a fair amount of time on this blog to the Cocoa-based programming/scripting languages F-Script and Nu. So to get started, today’s entry is on a little bit of investigation I did into bridging Nu’s native blocks with the Objective-C blocks that Apple introduced with Snow Leopard.
A quick description of blocks for [...]

Attributes Affecting Text Layout

3 February, 2010 (14:07) | General | By: Philip

Yesterday I started a radical revamp of the Hebrew Reader code. I had previously noticed that occasionally a vowel marking (a niqqud) would appear a little shifted to one side or the other. Nothing drastic, but definitely noticeable and ugly.

I began to suspect that the problem was caused by some custom attributes I was assigning [...]