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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts
Message-ID: <684@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 08:47:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.684
Posted: Thu Sep 10 08:47:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 16:32:19 EDT
References: <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP> <633@sugar.UUCP> <1448@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: fonts, rant and rave, long, gibberish.

In article <1448@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
> In article <633@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >In article <1106@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, sword@vu-vlsi.UUCP (David Talmage) writes:
> >> Better yet, does anyone know of some Amiga software for designing
> >> fonts?
> >Yes, it's called "FED" and it came with the 1.2 upgrade on the extras disk.
> I've used it in spite of that of course, but I've noticed that 
> sometimes when I do a save, ...
> nothing on the disk has actually been changed. Blek.

It's certainly not the greatest font editor I've ever seen (the one I did for
the apple-][ in Forth was better), but it's not "wretched". I just noticed this
bug. Hmmm... time for a quick port of fonted :-> (really :->, Fonts on the
Apple are much simpler).

> >> Does anyone know if there's a standard (like IFF?) for exchanging fonts?
> >Fonts are usually handed around in arc files containing foo.font and a
> >bunch of files with anmes like "8" and "12". You create the directory
> >"fonts:foo", copy the numbered files into it, and copy the foo.font file
> >into fonts:.
> The idea of using a number as a filename does have its disadvantages. 
> If you just go and arc a fonts: directory, you end up with a bunch
> of font headers, and a file called 12 :-). You have to change all the
> numbered files to names, like helvetica/24 to helvetica.24.

You could recursively arc the subdirectories. That's what I did to arc
directory trees on the PC. Anyone want me to port ARCTREE to the Amiga?
(serious this time, it shouldn't be too hard: it just calls ARC in all
the right places). This is a better fix, 'cos it doesn't assume anything
is broken.

> ...Ok, and them some nitwit is not using Matts/Steves shell...

I'me one of those nitwits. If it would handle EXECUTE files correctly and
use AmigaDOS wildcards, I'd probably change my mind. Oh yes, and if it didn't
take up so much of my 512K Amiga.
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