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Article 2815 of comp.sys.amiga:
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From: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: New font: Pearl
Keywords: font text topaz
Message-ID: <1166@spice.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 87 04:11:49 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Posted: Mon Mar 16 23:11:49 1987
I finally got tired of the PClone Topaz font and did something about
it. I took the font editor, loaded Topaz 8, got rid of all those
silly serifs (some of those letters look downright strange blown up),
smoothed out the edges and rounded the characters. I call the result
Pearl. Those of you who have seen the IBM RT with the APA-16 display
know a little bit what it looks like. It only comes in an 8-point
version, same size as Topaz 8 (so you can use it in place of Topaz and
still get an 80-column display). I didn't modify any of the
international characters, mostly because I didn't care about them
(those of you who do, they are easy enough to change).
To install the font:
unshar and uudecode the files.
create a subdirectory in FONTS: called pearl. place the file 8 in
this directory. Place the file pearl.fonts in FONTS: You're done.
The font is new ready for use with SetFont.
I use it with MicroGnuEmacs all the time and enjoy the change in
display. Too bad vt100 doesn't accept alternate fonts. Dave, do you
think the next version could allow the user to select the font via an
init file option?
Incidentally, I was thinking about making a set of "standard" fonts,
the ones you see used in normal print and not Dpaint pictures --
things like Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier, Souvenir, and Bodoni. I
think they would be pretty useful with a program like PageSetter. Do
these fonts already exist, either commercially or as freely
redistributable software?
--M
Mike Portuesi / Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department
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