Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland's Sprint
Keywords: cheap, powerful, way cool
Message-ID: <11705@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 88 17:34:58 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4326@saturn.ucsc.edu> lupin3@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-) writes:

|   You can move your tables.  BUT: why did you go to all that trouble in the
| first place?  They should have already had font width tables for all the
| standard printers and their standard (and even optional) fonts, and even if
| not--you should have found a way to automate it.

  The version I have certainly didn't even include the width tables for
the 200 or so HP softfonts, much less the 3rd party proportional fonts.
Actually printing and measuring the characters seems like a good way to
find out how wide they are.

  I got suggestions including downloading a binary program to the LJ and
running it by an undocumented escape sequence, and an offer of a program
for the C64 which analized the font table (in BASIC).

  Perhaps the LJ+ doesn't fit someone's idea of standard, or is limited
to the few cartridge fonts available, but there are hundreds of fonts
available, and I will do what I have to to get a good looking final
result.

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me