In article <LaZY$QDqFKOLFwm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In message <50d09d84d6dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes > <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes > I'm surprised there's not more choice, given the number of fonts that > have been converted from Windows to RISC OS over the years. Yes, hundreds of them were made available by Skyfall Public Domain (now part of APDL, I believe) -- though their "character layout" didn't tally with the regular Acorn fonts, so changing font to one of theirs tended to mess up punctuation, for example... > I'd been thinking about Dr. Fonty, but apparently that only goes from > RISC OS to Windows. > There have been large discs of PC fonts, including from EFF. There used > to be a web site of 100's (whose name escapes me "Harry Palmers Font > Site" - summink like that) but that went in a copyright argument (what a > shock). Harry Palmer was the name given to Len Deighton's British spy character (anonymous in the original novels) for the movies "The Ipcress File", "Funeral In Berlin" and "Billion Dollar Brain". I think it was Harry Payne whose font emporium you mean :-) -- John Ward in Medway, Kent - using RISC OS since 1987 Now using an Iyonix, an A9home, 2 RiscPCs and Virtual-RPC! Acorn/RISC OS web page: www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling