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From: gdunlap@csuchico.edu (Gregory L. Dunlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fonts
Keywords: fonts
Message-ID: <1990Mar24.012308.15484@csuchico.edu>
Date: 24 Mar 90 01:23:08 GMT
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In article <462@mohawk.cs.utexas.edu> bryan@cs.utexas.edu writes:
>In article <7004@cps3xx.UUCP> dailey@cpsin2.UUCP (Chris Dailey) writes:
>=-
>=-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.

     According to the various magazine articles I've read previewing 1.4 (2.0?),
the new Workbench will allow you to set what font you want it to use  for icons and stuff (probably through the new Preferences).
     I've never had setfont GURU me.  I have FF in my startup-sequence and
occasionally run setfont later on if I get bored with Topaz 8; maybe I've just
been lucky :-)

         - Greg Dunlap
         - CSUChico

- Yeah, yeah, I'll get around to making a .sig file one of these days.