MW EX, Leopard, and Font Names

[Timothy Klein <kleinvox@xxxxxxx>]

I recently wrote a MW EX project (version 1.6) on Mac OS X. It uses  
programable text, so I have to wade into the morass of cross-platform  
fonts.
I have a text box, called "Letters Font," which will set a font in  
":txtbx" for me, like so:
  talkto :txtbx
  [...]
  top select bottom
  carefully
    [setfont |Letters Font|]
    [ ... error code ... ]

Font names don't really seem to be what you would expect. Some font  
names, generally Apple-supplied ones, are predictable: "Maker Felt,"  
"Times," and "Courier" work as expected, when typed into the "Letters  
Font" text box, for instance. But "Times New Roman," "Arial," and  
"Comic Sans" do not: they fail with the following message:
  setfont does not like Times New Roman as input.

In my font menu, the names are actually rather bungled: "Times New  
Roman" is displayed as "Times New RomanBold." This is a bug, I think,  
but using *that* name is of no help. Finding the file "Times New  
Roman.ttf" and opening it in FontBook.app, I searched "Font Info" for  
all conceivable names of "Times New Roman": none worked.
There seems to be no way to query a text box for its current font, to  
see what *MicroWorlds* thinks the name is.
I downloaded the demo of MW EX 1.6 for WinXP, to try this on my old  
Dell laptop. Everything works fine on that platform: "Times New Roman"  
et al. work.
Is this a bug, or is there something I can do to fix this? All of the  
cross-platform, web-safe fonts that I *really* need to use here are  
not accessible on my Mac (and maybe others) via name. I have to use  
"Courier."
I now have an aluminum iMac, so it runs Mac OS X, 10.5 Leopard, with  
an Intel Core2 duo, with which I must run MW EX 1.6 under Rosetta, if  
that matters. I don't seem to remember my font names always being  
mangled in the "Text->Font" menu, but maybe they have been.
If you really want to see the file, it's on my public iDisk:

  http://idisk.mac.com/kleinsheets-Public

The file name is "alphabet.mwx."

Sincerely,

Timothy Klein
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