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Short: XEN Amelioration with Many Quot Marks
Uploader: Johan Björnson <johan.bjornson@rocketmail.com>
Version: 2nd official
Type: text/font
Requires: The XEN font installed
Malmö, Sweden
9.8.97
The FlodisXEN project commenced after I'd downloaded lots of fonts from the
Aminet - and other relevant sites - in search of a complete collection of
the various quotation marks used in different languages. Unfortunately none
was to be found.
Feeling dubious about their existence at all, I decided to modify the fixed-
width, 9 points XEN font (from the MagicWB package) to suit my needs.
Eventually I ended up, not only with my own quotation mark interpretations,
but also with a brand new "g" letter, which I hope you'll like.
(German users will happily find their special "double comma" quotation mark
at ASCII code 184 - instead of the cedilla sign.)
Moreover, I did the "æ" letter 5 pixels wide, touched up the ASCII 183 (big
dot), tidied the 171, 187 angle quotes and decreased the 60, 62 "less/more
than" signs so they can be used as quotes as well.
Minor adjustements in this version:
The combination lowercase-uppercase no longer clashes.
Brackets and tilde now immersed.
Brand new colon, semicolon, comma and quotation marks. They are smaller than
the ungainly ones included in last version.
ASCII 168 (diaeresis mark without vowel) turned into a quotation mark.
There aren't many decent font editors on the Aminet. "Typeface" (by David
Kinder) doesn't let you draw and erase a font's individual pixels (only flip
them around); "Font Editor" (by Tim Robinson) trashes the font if you
overwrite an existing file.
My creative joy faded a bit when I realized that an archive I had uploaded
contained corrupt files, destroyed by the latter editor. Embarrassing!
But that was before I discovered "Workbench Font Editor" (by Patrick F.
Clark), an excellent, intuitive application, appropriate to font-concerned
sundries - may it be the production of a 50 pixels color font or solely the
modification of ASCII code 255.
It's a wonderful piece of non-commercial (remarkable!) software.
Suitably, copy the stuff in the XEN drawer to your SYS:Fonts/XEN drawer.
You must have the XEN font properly installed, since FlodisXEN functions as
a 9 points replacement only.
If you use FlodisXEN, please let me know! Without feedback, a cessation may
affect the development and updates to the Aminet perhaps won't happen.
I cannot be held responsible for any damage the software within this archive
may cause you or your computer system, in any way. Use it at your own peril;
don't torment me with junky e-mail inundations if your computer is burning
or if you should feel an ardent devotion to FlodisXEN.
Some text strings (e.g. "qg") have very little spacing, due to the font's
width of merely 6 pixels. I don't want to increase it and cause an overall
impression of too airy gaps, so you'll have to live with that.
Remember: I'm not concealing the fact that I've got some ideas from the
"AlexisMachine" font (included in Malice/BRONX's Aminet archive "MLC-Font"
found in directory text/font), and the Wordworth font "DigitaSans."
/Johan Björnson
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2484 1509 39.2% 09-Aug-97 09:09:14 +9
580 387 33.2% 09-Aug-97 16:22:26 FlodisXEN.info
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