"Near metric" properties of the space of continuous real-valued functions on a space X with the compact-open topology or with the topology of pointwise convergence are examined. In particular, it is investigated when these spaces are stratifiable or cometrisable.

For Tychonoff $X$ and $\alpha$ an infinite cardinal, let $\alpha defX:=$ the minimum number of $\alpha$ cozero-sets of the Čech-Stone compactification which intersect to $X$ (generalizing $ℝ$-defect), and let $rtX:={min}_{\alpha }max(\alpha ,\alpha defX)$. Give $C\left(X\right)$ the compact-open topology. It is shown that $\tau C\left(X\right)\le n\chi C\left(X\right)\le rtX=max\left(L\right(X),L(X)defX)$, where: $\tau$ is tightness; $n\chi$ is the network character; $L\left(X\right)$ is the Lindel"of number. For example, it follows that, for $X$ Čech-complete, $\tau C\left(X\right)=L\left(X\right)$. The (apparently new) cardinal functions $n\chi C$ and $rt$ are compared with several others.

The Nevanlinna algebras, ${}_{\alpha }^p$, of this paper are the $L^p$ variants of classical weighted area Nevanlinna classes of analytic functions on = z ∈ ℂ: |z| < 1. They are F-algebras, neither locally bounded nor locally convex, with a rich duality structure. For s = (α+2)/p, the algebra $F_s$ of analytic functions f: → ℂ such that ${(1-|z\left|\right)}^s\left|f\left(z\right)\right|\to 0$ as |z| → 1 is the Fréchet envelope of ${}_{\alpha }^p$. The corresponding algebra ${}_s^{\infty }$ of analytic f: → ℂ such that $su{p}_{z\in }{(1-|z\left|\right)}^s\left|f\left(z\right)\right|<\infty$ is a complete metric space but fails to be a topological vector space. $F_s$ is also...

It is shown that every proper Fréchet space with weak*-separable dual admits uncountably many inequivalent Fréchet topologies. This applies, in particular, to spaces of holomorphic functions, solving in the negative a problem of Jarnicki and Pflug. For this case an example with a short self-contained proof is added.