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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Font Editor (Fed)
Keywords: Fed, font editor, fonts, broke
Message-ID: <2096@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 18:23:14 GMT
References: <5162@ecsvax.UUCP> <1311@goanna.oz>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article <1311@goanna.oz>, ajk@goanna.oz (Alan Kent) writes:
> From article <5162@ecsvax.UUCP>, by ruslan@ecsvax.UUCP (Robin C. LaPasha):
> > 4) The most frustrating - I can't set the font "Space" to 0.
  [ for the purpose of supporting overstriking ]

> I dont know if its any help, but I did overstriking by making the kern
> negative so the current character would overstrike the previous character.

Clever, but won't work for proportional fonts unless you know ahead of time
which character you're going to overstrike. Maybe someone should port
the IEHGOD program from IBM's OS/VU... :->.

You could mix these two techniques, pehaps. Set the kern to -1 pixel,
and space to 1 pixel, and then offset the character one pixel more. Then
what wil happen will be effectively: move back one pixel, display the
character, and then move forward one pixel.
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