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From: john@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: String.c (really fontload.tos)
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Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 12:29:42 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  7 12:29:42 1987
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In <8705271729.AA20883@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 
RDROYA01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Robert Royar) asks:
 >
 >2.  Does anyone have a TOS-based font loader?  I'd like something that will
 >reset the default font and will allow the new font to be used by TOS-based
 >programs.  Is this impossible?  It seems all that would be needed would be
 >to load a new font, reset the old pointers (via linea), and Ptrmres().
 >

  Yes!  A friend of mine wrote up just exactly what you asked for with
the additional feature that you could auto folder load an alternate
character set.  His program works only with Degas .FNT files for
fonts and allows you to specify fewer scan-lines per character if
you wished which allows using alternate 50/40/etc line character fonts
and the version of Emacs we hacked allows using the extended lines for
editing.  (Using a Courier font to edit C code looks almost exactly
like the font used in K&R... :)

  I'll ask him for permission to post to the net.  If you're in a hurry
you could check CI$ in ataridev or atari16 for FONTLOAD.ARC which contains
a slightly older, but functional version.  Let me know if you want it.
If I get enough interest, I'll post it to comp.sys.atari.st....

  There is also a desk accessory called FONTTRIX which changes the 
default character set for all applications (fontload only changes 
the character set for TOS/TTP applications) but I've only seen it
used, I have no idea who wrote it, if it's PD or anything else about 
it....

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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