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From: ab2r@quads.uchicago.edu (Marshall Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Where Norton's 40-line font comes from
Summary: It's the 50-line font plus some blank space?
Keywords: VGA font
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Date: 11 May 91 21:28:13 GMT
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yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil)  and joe@proto.com (Joe Huffman) wrote
wondering about where the font came from when Norton Control Center
produces a 40-line mode.  I don't know much about this aspect of PC's,
so what I'm about to say may be extremely naive.

I just did very crude measurements of the 40-line and 50-line font
heights (by holding a tape measure up to the monitor :-).  It looks as
if the only difference between them is that the 40-line font has a
little bit of space between the bottom of a 'p' or 'q' and the top of
a capital letter, whereas the 50-line mode does not.  The heights of
the characters themselves appear to be the same in either mode.  Is it
possible that NCC simply copies the 50-line font and modifies it by
adding space beneath every character, or something like that?

		Marshall Abrams