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- FONTS and GDOS
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- (c) zzSoft 1989, all rights reserved
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- For use with the ATARI ST program EASY TEXT+.
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- Companion file to the EASY TEXT+ tutorial.
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- This file details some of the tecniques and methods of using GDOS
- fonts, and the ASSIGN.SYS file.
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- Please note that your EASY TEXT+ disk is directly usuable. You do
- not need to know any of the following information in order to use
- EASY TEXT+ properly. This file is for the benfit of people who
- wish to alter their ASSIGN.SYS file; use different fonts; use a
- different printer driver etc.
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- It is essential that GDOS.PRG (in the folder called AUTO)
- is in Drive A at program boot up. If it is not a warning
- message will be issued by EASY TEXT+ informing you that
- you must boot with GDOS in an AUTO folder. You should not
- directly run GDOS.PRG by double- clicking on it.
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- Hard disk users may have configured their disk to auto boot
- from there. This is ok.
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- Also it is essential that the ASSIGN.SYS file is on the same
- disk as the GDOS.PRG. The ASSIGN.SYS file lets you specify
- what GDOS fonts can be loaded and used by EASY TEXT+. This
- is not peculiar to EASY TEXT+, it is the usual method used by
- DTP and art programs, eg Degas Elite.
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- You also need the FONTS folder on the same disk, or on the
- disk pointed to by the path statement at the head of the
- ASSIGN.SYS file. The fonts folder contains the actual fonts
- used by EASY TEXT+. The FONTS folder contains GDOS screen
- fonts, printer fonts, and the printer driver, eg FX80.SYS.
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- If GDOS is successfully installed at boot-up then a message
- should come onto your screen (top left-hand corner) for a short
- period of time before you are returned to the ST's desktop. The
- message should read:
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- ATARI GDOS Ver. 1.1 resident.
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- If, however, GDOS was not installed other messages will appear
- briefly on the screen, for example telling you that the
- ASSIGN.SYS file contains an illegal workstation, ETC. You must
- correct this problem before you can use EASY TEXT+.
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- To modify the ASSIGN.SYS file so that diferent fonts may be
- loaded other than the ones already specified in the file, you
- have to modify the file. This is acheived by loading the
- ASSIGN.SYS file into First Word and then turning off Word
- Processing (WP Mode - top of the EDIT menu). The file can
- then be modified to your purposes.
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- To change the printer driver you neeed only place the
- appropriate driver in the FONTS folder and change the name
- of the driver at 21, in the ASSIGN.SYS file.
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- As an example an ASSIGN.SYS file could contain the following
- text:
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- path=A:\FONTS
- ;
- 01p screen.sys ;Default screen
- ;
- 02p screen.sys ;Low-resolution screen
- ;
- 03p screen.sys ;Medium-resolution screen
- ;
- 04p screen.sys ;High-resolution screen
- ;
- COURIE10.FNT
- COURIE14.FNT
- COURIE18.FNT
- COURIE28.FNT
- COURIE36.FNT
- ;
- 21 FX80.SYS ; EPSON FX80 and compatibles
- EPSON_10.FNT
- EPSON_14.FNT
- EPSON_18.FNT
- EPSON_28.FNT
- EPSON_36.FNT
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- Note that this file does not specify any med res screen
- fonts, therefore no GDOS fonts will be available for use in
- medium reolution.
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- Do not leave a blank space in the ASSIGN.SYS file between the
- font names as this will cause the remainder of font names in
- the file to be ignored. Eg do not do this:
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- COMPUT16.FNT
- COMPUT18.FNT
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- COMPUT28.FNT
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- You should not give any GDOS fonts a name starting with a
- number, eg 42NDST.FNT. This will cause GDOS not to be installed.
- In all events check your ASSIGN.SYS file carefully.
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- To use the fonts you want substitute the new font names for
- the present ones, or alternatively include your new choice
- of fonts with the present ones. Then save the new ASSIGN.SYS
- file and place on your working disk with the other files and
- EASY TEXT program. Only have one ASSIGN.SYS file on your copy
- working disk.
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- Replace the fonts in the FONTS folder by the fonts specified
- in the ASSIGN.SYS file.
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- If you want to keep your FONTS folder on another disk you
- should alter the path statement in the ASSIGN.SYS file eg
- Path = C:\FONTS
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- You may call the folder what you will, so long as the name
- in the ASSIGN.SYS file corresponds with it.
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- Note that the ';' used in an ASSIGN.SYS file is there so that
- comments can be placed in the file. Any text on the same line
- as a ';' and placed after it will be ignored by GDOS,
- which is occasionally useful.
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- To Summarise
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- (a) You need ASSIGN.SYS, the AUTO folder containing GDOS.PRG,
- on your boot disk, and the FONTS folder on the disk pointed
- to by the Path statement in the ASSIGN.SYS file.
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- FONTS
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- Note that all fonts are loaded at start-up if there is enough
- RAM, If there is not enough RAM to accommodate all the fonts
- NO fonts will be loaded at all OR only some. This is why
- the PARAMETERS selection in the OPTIONS menu is so useful. It
- allows you to determine exactly how many fonts to place in an
- ASSIGN.SYS file.
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- It is possible to have many different ASSIGN.SYS files, by
- naming them slightly differently from ASSIGN.SYS. So you
- could have 4 different ASSIGN.SYS files called ASSIGN.SY1,
- ASSIGN.SY2, ASSIGN.SY3 and the one you are using at start-up
- ASSIGN.SYS. By having different combinations of fonts in each
- ASSIGN.SYS file it is possible at start-up time by correctly
- renaming any one of the other three files to ASSIGN.SYS and
- renaming the other now unwanted ASSIGN.SYS to some other name
- to load different font styles.
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- Always reboot the computer if you change the ASSIGN.SYS FILE,
- or use a different printer driver.
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- Selecting a font size that is not available results in the
- next smaller size being used.
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- Note that you must have the correct printer fonts for the
- EASY TEXT+ print program to operate correctly. Having only
- screen fonts is not sufficient, although it is perfectly
- possible to use different printer fonts when printing to
- get different print styles.
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- The software allows you to have a screen font half the
- printer font size. So, if you have a screen font 18 points
- high it is only necessary to have a printer font 9 points
- high to reproduce the screen font on your printer as the
- print program will double-up the printer font for you. This
- useful feature saves time and space.
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