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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav])
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Urgent request for information
Summary: fonts are the key
Message-ID: <10875@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 19 Nov 88 16:30:33 GMT
References: <674@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <674@jura.tcom.stc.co.uk>, pjb@tcom.stc.co.uk (Peter J. Bishop) writes:
> I am currently trying to write a filter to emulate the VT100 Line Drawing font
> 
> The way I want it to work is that the characters 32-127 (decimal) remain
> unchanged, but the characters 224-254 (decimal) are the characters 96-126
> (decimal) from the VT100 Line Drawing font - Got that.

The 'said font' is the solution.  Simply design a font which has
characters 32-127 defined the same way they are in your favorite
font, then define 224-254 the way you want them.  Then write your
filter to include the font definition and to setfont to this font.

It's that simple :-)
-- 
	Christopher J. Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
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