Some responses from Brian:

> Many thanks for your comment, Peter

.
> With regard to the usage of the available desktop, we made a decision to use
> a specific font, which we created for this program, which allowed us to
> recreate the look and feel of the original programs, and have some special
> characters not available with standard fonts.

> This was acheived but, as Windows allows itself to be used on a wide variety
> of different machines and monitors, we decided to simply offer different
> sizes of the font so that it could be scaled up to fit the individual user's
> preference. With displays differing vastly between 640 x 480 to as much as
> 1800 x 1200 or more, the display would need to be stretched to accommodate a
> full screen mode, causing distortion, plus the 'floating' timetable window
> would then be covered over.

> It was therefore decided to offer the program in the form it is now.
> I agree that the demo doesn't fill a large monitor; it is the same on my
> computer. However, I found that by using the standard font I was able to
> position the timetable window to the side of the program window and pull
> down the timetable to its maximum and work with them both side by side.

I hope that explains the decision to go for the current format. The fact
that displays no longer have to fit the 640x480 ratio means that to fill
every display would require some form of stretching, which we don't
think would be helpful. As Brian says, if you have some screen area free
there are other ways it can be used.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne (SIAM)