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- ░▒▓█ I T F █▓▒░ September 17, 1996 v1.61
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ƒrom ZaStaR
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- The Impulse Tracker Font Customizer.
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- Are you using a text mode tracker?
- Do you squint at the tiny indicators?
- Do you complain about fat letters?
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- Well Complain no more! Now, with ITF,
- you can choose (and make!) your own fonts!!
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- (Relax, ITF wastes no memory space from
- Impulse Tracker!)
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- ____Using ITF_____________________________
- Basically its much like ST3 and IT's
- controlls...
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- Load up a font set and pressing Ctrl-S
- will save that font. Then load IT and
- hey! It's all there now! ('FONT' is
- the current font set you've set IT to use!)
-
- Arrows Navigate inside the edit box
- Tab Go Between the Edit Box and
- Font List Screens. (If you're
- really good, you can even
- directly copy and paste from
- the Font List box! :)
-
- Space Plot if Empty before
- Blank if Plotted before
- Del Blank a line Horizantally
- Ins Fill a line Horizontally
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- + Next Character to Edit
- (Also Ctrl+RightArrow)
- - Previous Character
- (Also Ctrl+LeftArrow)
- PageDown 4 Characters Ahead
- PageUp 4 Characters Before
- Home First editable Character
- End Last editable Character
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- i Inverse the current character
- (just try it, you can inverse
- again to get it back :)
- Shift+Arrow Shifts a character a
- bit left, right, higher, or
- lower
- Alt C Copy a Character
- Alt P Paste a Character
- Alt Z Clear the Edit Box
-
- Ctrl R Reload Character Bank
- Use the arrow keys here and
- Enter to load up a file to
- see the fonts they hold.
- Ctrl S Save Character Bank to IT's
- used font list.
- (Remember, nothing's really
- done until you save!)
-
- BackSpace
- You can IGNORE this button.
- It just reloads the old
- standard 8x8 ROM font... but,
- I'm sure you'd prefer the other
- cool fonts.
- Control+BackSpace
- You can ignore this one too.
- This only reloads the default
- IT graphics set - so the
- other characters (like A to z)
- are not defaulted.
-
- Ctrl Q Go make a Song.
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- ____Note________________________________________
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- Everything is reletively easy to
- try out so just run ITF and see for
- yourself. *Remember!: Impulse Tracker
- and ITF strictly use Font.Cfg. If you
- have another font, rename it to
- Font.Cfg (after making a backup for
- the original, of course ;)
- *Also, a minor adjustment for those familiar
- with previous versions: ITF now uses the
- 'ITF' extension instead of 'CFG' except
- for Font.Cfg. This way, the files that IT
- uses directly are the ones with 'Cfg'
- (just a little more organized, don't
- you think? ;)
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- Some predefinted font sets are optimized
- for special features.
- 'FineLine' uses a thin font set.
- 'J-Electr' is a fancier 'FineLine.' Font by
- Jari Karppinen.
- 'J-Flux' is a thicker 'J-Electr.' Font also
- by Jari Karppinen.
- 'Ariel' is a nice standard to use.
- 'FN-Ice' is a useful font with style. It features
- updated scrollers and volume bars. Font by
- Phantasm.
- 'FN-Round' is another by Phantasm. Much like Ice,
- but check it out :)
- 'EK-Mac' uses the crisp standard font from a Mac.
- Modified frames and scroll bars - this font's
- by Electric Keet.
- 'EK-Space' mostly an ariel font. Also has modified
- volume bars (sine waves), borders, and an
- animated scroll bar (melting ball).
- Also from Electric Keet.
- 'KanaFont' is a thick font - very legible :) Font by
- Jari Karppinen.
- 'Thick' is a very clear font set with nice big
- legible words. If you like big letters,
- this is the right one for you. Font by
- Jari Karppinen.
- 'J_Termo' is the thickest (and large-looking) font
- set. It's even thicker than 'Thick!' Also
- by Jari Karppinen.
- 'SmallCap' is also superlegible, using capital
- letters for all (shorter ones for lower
- cased ones). Font by Zirconia.
- 'PeriSoft' is another great (and artistic) font
- set with updated boarders, a robot
- slider,...just try it out :) This one really
- shows how ITF can change the way IT looks.
- Font by PeriSoft.
- 'ZircFont' is very nice and artistic and
- also useable for general
- purposes. Another font by Zirconia.
- 'GTHS-Bug' is a very legible font from Graham the Happy
- Scum. It's got borders, scrollers, and everything.
- 'Script' is a cursive font made by Jeffrey Lim himself.
- 'J_Curse' is a font leaning to the right. Also
- by Jari Karppinen.
-
- 'Font' is the font set that IT will use - so,
- remember to always save! (pressing
- control-s will automatically save
- into this file)
- _______________________________________________________
- Many thanks to Emmanuel Giasson (Zirconia) for
- the 'ZircFont' and 'SmallCap' (giassone@ift.ulaval.ca).
- And to PeriSoft/capacala for the 'PeriSoft' font
- (w23@cornell.edu)
- And to Jari Karppinen for the 'Thick,' 'J-Curse,'
- 'J-Electr,' 'KaraFont,' 'J-Flux,'and 'J-Termo' fonts.
- And to Phantasm for the 'FN-Ice' and the 'FN-Round' font.
- (crose@julian.uwo.ca)
- And to Electric Keet for 'EK-Mac' and 'EK-Space.'
- And to Graham the Happy Scum fot 'GTHS-Bug.'
- (gths@itclub.mur.csu.edu.au)
- Thanks to all who give me those interesting lil' ideas :)
- Did I get everyone?
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- Special thanks to Jeffrey Lim for some
- vital programming support (testing, info,
- supporting ITF in IT, music to listen to,
- and, basically, everything).
- _________________________________________________
- And a Standard Disclaimer...
- "I disclaim all responsibility for all
- possible 'bad' stuff ITF may possibly
- do." ---ZaStaR
- _________________________________________________
- Questions? Comments? Or, :) If you make a
- great new font set (usable OR artistic)
- please send them to me...I may be able
- to release them in the future for everyone.
- I'm at (zastar@uclink4.berkeley.edu), mail
- me, even if it's just to see if I really
- exist :)
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- And Finally....
- Stop Reading this and GO MAKE THAT
- great S O N G for all to Hear ! ! !
- (or the environment to make that song) ;)
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- P.S.
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- If you thing you're REALLY good, you can try out
- the -a option (it stands for "advanced"). Type
- "ITF" to get some info on it. With it, you can
- save over the standard ITF fonts with your own
- modifications.
- There's even a way to load graphics into the font ;)
- Remember, -a is all undocumented so be very
- careful...but have fun, it's packed with a lot
- of extra options.
- I kept -a appart from the standard program to try to
- keep the basic ITF simpler to use (hope I succeded).
- Also, IT will internally change some characters>127
- anyway.
- -a also allows the Shift-G, which saves the font into
- a raw graphics file (8x2048). Just Press Shift-G
- anytime in the Control-S saving window...it'll always
- save only into "ITF.Raw"
- Another option is -f which loads a 8x16 font file and
- *tries* really hard to squish it into the 8x8 form.
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- If you got suggestions for more additional
- functions for whatever need, just tell me. I'll
- put it in (if my University allows me the time ;)
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- Okay, that's all! Now go make that song !!