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| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
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| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
449.0. "Font question" by ECC::JAERVINEN (May all your loops be infinite) Thu Apr 09 1987 11:05
The default font displays all non-printable characters as little
boxes (I assume that would be true for the orther fonts also, but
haven't tried).
How are the fonts organized? Does every non-printable character
have it own bitmap for that square, or does the SW check whether
a character is printable or not, and act accordingly?
In the first case, it should be possible to create a font to use
e.g. with an editor (like DME) to have non-printable characters
displayed reasonably (it currently displays them as those boxes).
It should be possible to create distinguishable characters that
fit in one character cell for all the control characters (that's
how they do it on many data line analyzers, displaying something
like a small sperscript E and small subscript X in one cell for
ETX = control-C). In fact, the DEC fonts have some of those too..
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