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The text in my game doesn't seem to tab correctly when I view dwarf inventory and it's even worse when I try trading with anyone. The tabs seem to be all off.

I am running DF 0.34.11
The texture pack is Ironhand 0.73
OS is Windows 7

I have tried other texture packs all of which have the same problem, except for the original ASCII pack which corrected itself after a while (but I would much rather play with tiles than ASCII characters). I have tried scrolling the mouse button to make more words fit on the screen and tabbing through display options, and it kinda works for viewing inventories but doesn't work at all for trade. I have pictures below, unfortunately time was short and I couldn't get a trade picture in. Basically the trade screen has each item cut off after about 8 characters and doesn't show any prices for any items.

Any suggestions?

I just started Dwarf Fortress a couple days ago. I visit the wiki, search the forums, and have done everything I can think of to learn how to play this game but I still have some questions.

1. How do I see how much an item is worth? I used to be able to see this in the item description but now it seems to cut off, even while trading!

2. Is there a way to have an 'auto maintain this amount of stuff' option for things like drink or wood?

3. Is there a faster way to select what you want to sell to a merchant besides clicking every single item?

4. Is there a faster way to move my crafts to the trade depot?

5. What sort of things should I trade for early on in the game? I'm still new so I don't even know what I need :p

6. How do I view what a Dwarf has in his inventory / what he is looking for to make him happy?