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From: undrground!accangel@amix.commodore.com (Mark Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Workbench fonts
Message-ID: <4HPs11w164w@undrground.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 91 08:02:02 GMT
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brett@visix.com (Brett Bourbin) writes:

> In WB 2.02, why are only some fonts available for the system default font?  I
> a small, 9 or 11 point helvetica font, or just some font that I will be able 
> than 130 characters per line.  The WB does not let you "pick" from all the av
> but only a small sub-section.  Is it that no seif fonts can be used?  Is ther
> that I am missing?
 
No, you're not missing anything.  The default system font box only lets
you pick from nonproportional, or monospaced fonts - like Topaz.  That 
is, fonts that have characters, punctuation, spaces, etc. all the same 
width.  Why?  Because some applications (for instance, terminal programs) 
need a guaranteed available nonproportional font so their displays will 
come out looking all right.  And, in the spirit of the 2.0 OS, you aren't 
forced to work with Topaz 8 - you can choose any nonproportional font. 
 
Besides the Topaz family of fonts, Courier should also work, as well as 
the various non-serifed (or "clean") Topaz clones out there.  Me, I like 
a certain font called Clean3, 11 point, on an interlaced (well, 
400-pixel-line) screen), 'coz Topaz 8 is just TOO tiny.
 
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