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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Uniterm fonts
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Date: 6 Oct 90 05:58:56 GMT
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In article <6458@hub.ucsb.edu> eckmann@ashley.ucsb.edu () writes:
>Someone recently asked how to change fonts in Uniterm, and the only reply
>I saw was an excerpt from the V2.0d ReadMe file. I apparently need more
>specific instructions. I want to use my own favorite 8x16 font in the
>vt100 screen instead of the default system font. Is this possible? My GEM
>font (constructed with Fontz) is not acceptable to Simon Poole's make_uft
>program. (And Simon's sample GEM fonts get lots of complaints from Fontz.)
>Are there different GEM font formats? If so, how can I get my font into
>the right format? Assuming I can make a UFT font, I need to load it and
>change to it. How?
>
>Thanks.
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> Steve Eckmann | internet: eckmann@cs.ucsb.edu | phone: (805) 961-4394

Somewhere in the Uniterm docs it mentions that Uniterm fonts use standard
GEM font data but without any of the header info. I guess that means you
define all 256 character values, and since it only allows fixed-width
fonts, and knows what sizes it expects to see, it reads the data into
memory without any consistency checks or whatever... See if you can strip
your Fontz output files down to the proper dimensions...
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
		one million data bits stored on the chip...