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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fonts on the Amiga
Message-ID: <3070@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 31 Mar 88 08:54:38 GMT
References: <3000@gryphon.CTS.COM> <4640@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: Fonts
Summary: Open mouth insert foot


Kent has a point:

In article <4640@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <3000@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard
>Sexton) writes: 
>>But why only support for fixed space fonts ?
>>
>>Yes, this would require keeping around more information per character
>>than now, [...]
>
>Well, no, no extra information.  If you know from the font how wide
>the character was when writing it going to the right, then you can
>look at the same information to figure out how big a blank space to
>write going to the left.  You do still have the ASCII code for the
>character in the file you're editing, so you know what you are about
>to delete, right?  The font table is still around for reference?


Bloody 'ell, 'es right.

Ok you people, no excuses now...  :-)

>>The other subject I want to touch on is colorfonts. Color fonts are
>>fonts comprised of more than one bitplane.  They were invented by 
>>Interactive Softworks, who developed _The Calligrapher_, a font 
>>editing program.
>
>Not unless they invented color fonts before 1977, the first time I saw
>them used.  Those have been in SIGGRAPH procedings stuff for a long,
>long time.  We of ANSI X3H3 decided not to support them, directly as
>fonts, in what became the GKS standard, in late 1979 or early 1980,
>because they were beyond our charter.

My mistake; bad terminology.

By "color fonts" I didn't mean fonts comprised of multiple colors in
an abstract sense, but rather, the specific format for color fonts
as they are used on the amiga developed by Interactive Softworks.

Hey, not bad for a non lawyer, that almost sounds legalese. Maybe theres
a future for me after all. Hey Leo! Need any legal help for this years
Siggraph ?

>>Comments ?
>
>Well, you asked. ;-)  I restricted this to comp.sys.amiga, 'cause it
>is more history lesson than a tech contribution.
>
>Kent, the man from xanth.

I'd really like an answer from sombody working on the shell or is in some way
resposible for the CLI. 

Really really.

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