'NEGATIVE A- or C- SPACE' font messages

Question

Sometimes I get the message 'NEGATIVE A- or C- SPACE IN FONT MAY CAUSE ERRORS'. I don't understand the writeup in the message manual.

Answer

  This is usually issued when using an italic font.

  An italic lowercase f has negative C space.

  The character will extend past the line length.

  Years ago, PSF/MVS couldn't handle the "off the logical page" condition--it
  would stop printing your job if anything fell outside the logical page.

  A check was added to SCRIPT just to warn you that you might have a
  situation where your text could fall off the logical page.

  This check was removed in DCF Rel 3.2 via apar PL61206 in 6/90.  It was no
  longer needed as PSF/MVS no longer stops printing for off the logical page
  errors.

Last updated: 93/08/04 14:04:02