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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

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From: "K. Pruitt" <pruittk at roadrunner.com>
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Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?


> 
> ----- 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.
 
Err, you may expose more problems in OS-9 than you may wish to fight.

I only tested standard characters on the graphics screens.

Tomorrow I will try and find my results.

SHF