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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
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Subject: Re: char gen related software
Keywords: Atari 520ST, character generator, scan conversion, fonts
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Date: 7 Feb 91 19:25:57 GMT
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i have just posted some stuff which may help u. nroff v1.10p4 now generates
vt100-ish escape sequences (eg ESC [ 1 m) which another program i posted
(manpager) reads and uses to change fonts (mono only so far, monospaced
font only so far). check it out. included are a bunch of 8x16 fonts to
replace those in RAM (actually, all i do is change the line A pointer to
the font data). i posted src, so this may get u going. it should appear
soon (i sent it out a week ago). my plans with nroff are to eventually
support proportional fonts (for laser printers and the screen) so that
it will be more troff than nroff (for non-unix people, these are batch
oriented text formatting programs under unix).

note that i also posted a bunch of tools to batch edit the .FED fonts
i used, including a program to convert .FNT files (which come with MGR)
into .FED files (which is the format used by TOS).

you can also consider GDOS, though i have no experience with it.

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com

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