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From: adam@cbmcats.UUCP (Adam Keith Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hebrew and other RL languages for AMIGA
Summary: See the new RKM
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Date: 18 Dec 89 20:36:27 GMT
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In the new Amiga ROM Kernel Technical Reference Manual:Libraries and Devices,
this is made a bit clearer.  I re-wrote the example program from the old manual
so that it handles reverse-path fonts correctly.
The Font Editor _will_ allow you to select reverse-path from the menu, but
you must first load in an existing font and change its "Font type" to
Proportional.  If you don't do the latter, you won't be able to alter each
character's Space entry.  For reverse-path fonts, the Space should be small
or negative; the Kern should be a large, negative number (approximately the
width of the character).  If all the characters have the same Space value
when you are done, you can set the font type back to fixed-width.
No, not all programs correctly handle reverse-path fonts.

Adam Keith Levin  --  CATS     Commodore Applications and Technical Support
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