Copyright: ® 1994 Rimrock Software.


Contents
Typecase

Typecase lets the user choose characters from a large clear display of the full font.

For the best clarity, its window should be maximized or nearly so.

MENU OPTIONS:-

     `another font' lets you choose which font.

     `16*16/32*8 (or pressing F1) switches the display between 16 rows of 16 characters and 8 rows of 32 characters.

     `show buffer?' (or pressing F2) switches on or off whether to show the buffer.

     `buffer to clipboard' copies the contents of the buffer to the Windows clipboard as text.

  Other Windows applications can read from the clipboard by `Edit, Paste'.

     `read font' reads in fonts from a chosen font file; if the file is a .TTF file, it offers to create the corresponding .FOT file if it does not exist already. (Windows 3.* can't read directly from *.TTF files, but Windows 95 / 98 / etc can.)

     `drop font' drops any fonts (until you restart Windows) that were read from a chosen font file.

     `numbers' (or pressing F3) switch between displaying cell numbers not at all / decimal / hexadecimal.

     `all to clipboard' copies the whole font display to the clipboard as graphic.

  Pressing any control key or printing key puts the current font's equivalent character in the buffer at the cursor.

  Clicking the left mouse button on a character puts it in the buffer at the cursor.

  In the buffer, left-arrow and right-arrow move the cursor, and delete and backspace delete a character at the cursor as usual.

  While the right mouse button is pressed, the character that the mouse is on is displayed very big. The rectangle shows the type size (without `internal leading'); any parts of the character outside this rectangle are called `kerns' and may overlap other characters.

NOTE: The Windows clipboard when used to hold text seems to have no standard way to transmit font information. The user must make sure that the desired font is current in the editor or wherever that he will paste the characters into.


Information
IconInformation

Typecase lets the user choose characters from a large clear display of the full font.