Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!linus!sdl
From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How do font styles work?
Message-ID: <41124@linus.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 14:17:34 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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The manual that comes with Enhancer (AmigaDOS) v1.3 discusses fonts,
which reminded me that I never really understood them very well.  On
page 6-3, it says: "When the system finds a specially designed italic
font, it will use it instead of trying to create its own."

But I have never been able to organize my FONTS: directories so as to
get this feature to work!  Suppose I have designed a 14-point normal
Roman font, and a 14-point italic Roman font.  What filenames do I
give these?  Do I put them both in the Roman directory?  Is there
anything special I need to do to the Roman.font file in order to
indicate that there are two different 14-point font styles available
on disk?  Do programs like Notepad and ProWrite know what to do in
such cases?


Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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