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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Nice, large fonts, anyone?
Keywords: TeX fonts!
Message-ID: <1040@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 88 17:05:55 GMT
References: <1038@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <6907@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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In article <6907@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>In article <1038@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> I wrote:
>>There are some problems with the conversion: For instance, TeX fonts
>>only define 128 characters, while AmigaDOS fonts define 256.
>Not so. Amiga fonts consists of 0 to 256 characters.  See the fields loChar 
>and hiChar of the TextFont structure from the RKM vol 1.

Oh, yes, I realize. What I meant to say was when you take a TeX font, and make
an AmigaDOS font out of it, you get a font with hiChar set to 127, max.
Thus, if you try to get the O-umlaut, all you'll get is the UNDEFINED
character, which might be disappointing for some people. TeX normally
creates O-umlaut by sticking two dots right above the O, not by defining 
O-umlaut as an separate character. To get TeXF to generate all 256 characters
of an AmigaDOS font would've required some knowledge of the internals of TeX.
Sorry for the confusion... 

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu