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

[K. Pruitt]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce via Coco" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?


>
> Kelly, you probably already know, but OS9 uses control sequences to 
> produce the characters above 127.
> What you're trying to do is pretty easy once you have a font editor, which 
> I saw you found (I have several).
> I have done the very same thing and created fonts with the RSDOS ascii 
> graphics characters to use in Basic09 programs.
> Some of the font editors do not allow editing above 127 so you have to 
> find one that will. Changing the chars above 127 (and below 32) is the 
> same way the ANSI font set was done for the font set used in ANSI 
> compatable Com programs in OS9 to use the ANSI graphics chars.
> Most of the empty and repeated chars in the current sets are actually used 
> by MultiVue to create the fancy borders and scroll bars, so if you change 
> your fonts, MultiVue will look strange :-)
> There are also several sets of alternate fonts on RTSI that have some 
> interesting looking fonts.
> Some where on my old disks I have about 30 font sets I created back in the 
> 80s-90s, but those disks are inaccessable for now.
>

Thanks, Bill.  I'm editing some characters that appear in the stdfonts right 
before "!" but they seem to be addressed to characters 193 and above.  So 
this may work out nicely.