Hi Bob,
Thanks for summarising the request, this is noted. To share a little bit more background info on this feature. When we released the text tool we balanced between supporting only a handful of fonts vs including all system and installed fonts and we went with the latter, but this added the risk that we won’t be able to handle all the font types perfectly. The workaround currently is as you mentioned to manually fix the sketch issues, or moving forward with a simpler font type.
To manage your expectations, revisiting this part of the text tool is not on our roadmap right now as it has lower priority than the items we are currently working on.
To take a more complete note of the request can you elaborate more on the other needs (and/or blocked workflows) you have that are not connected to 3D printing?