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From: bryan@cs.utexas.edu (Bryan Bayerdorffer @ Wit's End)
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Subject: Re: Fonts
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Date: 23 Mar 90 21:52:24 GMT
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In article <7004@cps3xx.UUCP> dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey) writes:
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=-Me, too.  I've tried the SETFONT utility (available PD) also with mixed
=-results.  I can change more fonts, but the filenames that appear under
=-the icons on the workbench remain the standard system font.

	Setfont needs to be run before loadwb in order to get The icons
labelled with the new font.  This appears to be a bug in the workbench code.
Hopefully 1.4 will clean up the whole font-changing mechanism, which currently
appears to be very ad hoc.  You pretty much have to write your applications to
cooperate if you want to use anything other than an 8x8 font.  This should be
made more transparent.

=-Incidentally, mixing SETFONT and FF causes a visit by the guru ... :(
=-
	I haven't experienced this.  Then again I only run setfont and ff once
each, immediately before loadwb in s:startup-sequence.