[softwarelist] Re: Any Font thoughts please?
- From: David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:07:26 +0000
Hi,
Quoting myself from this list six years ago:
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Sat, 22 Nov 2003
I did have a go at using a !Fonts.Messages1 file to create a new font
name with a different encoding - didn't work, and from the PRM's that is
probably no surprise.
It did bring to mind the idea that you might be able to add to the main
encoding file a small number of characters that you want to use. But
with the obvious problem that your documents would not be portable to
other machines.
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From the PRM (page 3-420) you should be able to tack the encoding on to
the name of a font, I wonder if this works in something like Draw - this
has the facility to import text files which contain things like font
names - a text area.
Otherwise one is left wondering how Acorn tested the ability to use
encodings in font names.
Messages1 is a very sharp tool, the slightest error and the machine
stiffs. But adding to the encoding sounds OK.
What we really want, is something that sits on a vector and glues the
encoding on to the font name before the Font_FindFont SWI gets hold of
it, thus allowing use in any program - nice idea for you Martin...
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