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From: lisa@phs.UUCP (Jeffrey William Gillette)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Multiple fonts on the EGA: Any advice?
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 23:13:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 31 23:13:58 1985
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I have fallen heir to an Extended Graphics Adapter card, and 
would like to do multiple fonts from the cursor (not graphics nor 
alpha) mode.  The PC Seminar Proceedings paper (Vol. 2, Number 
11, Nov. 1984) documents how to load custom character generators 
into the EGA card, and I have been able to load my own 256 
character font as the default font without difficulty. 

There are, however, slots for four complete fonts.  Once I load 
the four fonts, does anyone have any idea how I can access the 
three spare fonts?  I would like, if possible, to store the full 
1024 characters and access them in a fairly random manner.  If 
this can be done in the cursor mode, I can write the routines to 
make most of my commercial programs run with several foreign 
alphabets.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

        Jeff Gillette           duke!phs!lisa
        Duke University