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From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman)
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Subject: Re: fonts
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 03:24:59 GMT
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:01:35 GMT, Robert_Swan@scee.net (Robert Swan)
wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:24:58 +0100, "jack" <298jh@tay.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>I have searched the news groups and web sight and found very little in
>>regard to fonts. Could you please clarify a couple of things for me. I use
>>fontload to load the standard font into the vram. Am I correct in believing
>>that this is the 7segfont tim file on the boot disk. If it is how do I get
>>at the other types that are present in the file.
>>I have opened the tim and it contains italics and capital but I cannot
>>access these.
>>Are there some commands that would allow this.
>
>dunno - you could change it on a frame by frame basis by moving the
>tim around :) (same theory as in overwriting your own). It wouldnt
>surprise me if there were more hidden codes in FntPrint like the one
>to colour the text.


Have you tried printing out all 256 characters yet?  Who knows, the
italics may be there, just starting at some other offset (i.e.
"a"=ASCII 65), maybe italic "a" is somewhere higher.

Steven