.Info about RonsText v3.3 font, and RonsASCII v1.1 font.
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@RonsTEXT 3.3 & RonsASCII
Ronald B. Romine
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I discovered
@GEOS
, I discovered
@GEOS
's fonts, then I discovered a font editor for the fonts.
My first font editor was a simple editor that I typed out of an
@Abacus
book. When compared to BSW's
@geoFont
, or Jim Collette's
@Font Editor
, it had almost no power. It was but a Desk Accessory, allowed only a small amount of memory. Through it, I created my first font "RonsWriter^.
@RonsWriter
, was designed to be used in place of the BSW font. It was a 9 point font, with several of the characters altered to make them easier to identify. I also added new charactes by replacing the unused ones.
Later, I uploaded RonsWriter to
@Quantum-Link
, as an "extra^ in a file pack called "Append.SDA^. Interest in RonsWriter, increased to the point that I cleaned it up, added more point sizes, and re-created it in two new fonts call
@RonsTEXTer
, and
@RonsPub
. Which soon I uploaded as "RonsFonts.SDA^.
So, I thought, my adventures as a font'smith were to close to an end.
Wrong!!!
Soon I discovered, I had a small but enchanted following. I had to do something! RonsWriter, and RonsPub were finished as far as I was concerned. Their creation was out of a need for a more readable font for "text entre^. However, I keep looking at RonsTEXTer.
The first thing I did was to shorten the name, I got ridden of the `er'. The font was now called "RonsText^. It was named TEXTer, because it's was created for the purpose of entering text.
Second, I added two more point sizes -- 18 and 27. I choose multiples of the 9 point size, for easier and faster creational speed.
Finially, I looked over the "10 point keyboard^. RonsText, you see, uses the 10pt. size as a storage area for extra charcters and symbols. I deleted the ones I considered useless, moved others to different keys, and cleaned-up others.
Now, when I first designed RonsTEXTer, I planned for it to be 100% compatible with
's font. However, this would mean NO custom characters could be used. But I WANTED custom characters. Using the 10 point custom characters
@RonsTEXTer
, does not have totally compatiblity. If a person were to use only the 9pt size, they could have
% compatiblity. The
% incomptiblity is due to the fact that I left two custom characters on the "main^ key board.
I found that I used two characters too often to place them on the "10pt keyboard^. The first was the "ending quotation mark^, and the second was the "leading apostraphe^. The characters normally found in their place, were placed on the "10 point keyboard^.
RonText, was good but this left me without a fully compatible
's (ASCII) font. So, I created RonsASCII.
@RonsASCII
RonText, was good but this left me without a fully compatible
's (ASCII) font. So, I created RonsASCII.
@RonsASCII
, can be used in place of
's font. Since no special characters are used, you can read any geoWrite file written in RonsASCII without having a copy of RonsASCII.
RonsASCII is designed with lowercase and numbers at an average width of 6 pixels, and uppercase at 8 pixels. The "space^ character is 8 pixels, making it NLQ compatible. However, with the lowercase existing at an average of 6 pixels instead of 8, the formatting (wrap around) of the sentences will change. Its best to use a 10pt. font with a width of 8 pixels. For NLQ to work, the font being used must have a "space^ character of 8 pixels.
@RonsTEXT 9pt
keyboard has only two custom keys:
Pressing:
key = { ^ }
key + {@}
= { ` }
@RonsTEXT
@RonsTEXT 9pt
keyboard has only two custom keys:
Pressing:
key = { ^ }
key + {@}
= { ` }
@RonsTEXT
@10pt
keyboard has the following keys:
Normal: Shifted:
key:
c =
t =
t T
r =
m =
x =
b =
* =
=
= =
< =
> =
@ =
p =
n =
N =
- =
e =
/ =
/ ? \
: =
; =
q =
w =
o =
v =
1 =
2 =
5 =
6 =
7 =
8 =
9 =
And the Space bar produces a space only one pixel in thickness. It can be used as a "micro-edit^, allowing precise aliment of characters.
And the 10pt is sure to grow with time...
GeoRon.
ing my third font. It was to be my main font, it would replace
(.txt)