[Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?

K. Pruitt pruittk at roadrunner.com
Tue May 12 01:51:46 EDT 2015


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer"
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?


> The Graphics Screens allow you to select fonts but not the text ones. 
> There may have been an editor for graphics fonts in Rainbow. I wrote an 
> editor for something but it has been so many years.
>
> My "Colorful SLED Full Screen Text editor for OS-9"
> http://www.tandycoco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=198
>
> allows you to use more of the <Alt> characters.
>
> For "Minted" others will need to report it's use of <Alt> characters.
>
> OS-9's use of the full ASCII is full of holes, duplicates, unusual 
> operations (2 or 3 characters with one key press) and so on.
>
> I generated a chart but I would need to look for it.
>
> SHF
>

Thanks Stephen.

I'm trying to recreate the block characters from the ECB low-res characters 
128-255 on to a 80x24 type 7 window.

The font editor I'm using only seems to handle the chars up to 127.

I don't know nothing 'bout no fonts, so this is my first experimentation 
with OS-9 fonts.





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