¢GLYPH v1.0¢¢A ShareWare Font Editor and Utilities Package for all Atari 8-bit Home Computers!¢¢Copyright 1991 by Atari Zone Technology¢¢Written by Jack Prevost (known as The Bishop), and released this first day of February, 1991¢¢¢A Note from the Author¢¢ If you want to register this program, or have any suggestions or comments, send mail to:¢¢AZtechnology Registration,¢c/o Jack Prevost,¢E. 637 18th Ave.,¢Spokane, WA 99203¢¢ I suggest a $10 check for registration, but you don't need to send that much, send whatever you feel the program is worth, and whatever you can afford. I'll keep track of registered users, and I'll try to get updates out to you every few months about what's going on over on this side of the program, and news about any updates for Glyph. Thanks!¢¢¢The Glyph Editor¢¢¢General Info on Using Glyph¢¢ Font editors are not a new idea in the history of Atari computers. In fact, I know of at least three very good ones right now off of the top of my head. However, I hope to have a better program than any of the others. The one main difference between Glyph and all other font editors is that Glyph allows you to have two user-editable fonts in memory, along with the system font (which cannot be edited.)¢¢ Glyph has three main areas. The first one you will notice as you load up is the menu. Here you will find all of the commands available to you as you use the program.¢¢ Another area is the character selection and font display area. This is at the bottom of the screen, and hilited to display the character set you are working on. From this area, you will select which characters you want to work with, etc. When you are asked to make a selection from the font window, one of the characters will be selected. As you use the arrow keys to move around, you will see a number displayed in the upper left hand corner of the screen. This number is the internal (screen) code for that character.¢¢ The last area of the screen, but certainly not the least, is the edit window. Here, the bit pattern character you are editing will be displayed, along with it's hexadecimal representation to the right of the main section of the window. This character is not physically in the character set, but is set aside in a special buffer so you may move characters from set to set, and try out various possibilities without erasing already defined characters. Sometimes, you will be asked to select a line in the edit window. When this happens, one line of the window will be hilited, and you can move up and down using the arrow keys or joystick to select the line you want to work on.¢¢¢The Glyph Menu¢¢ Scroll U,D,R,L: These commands scroll the pixels of the characters in the buffer one space in the direction indicated.¢¢ Insert Row: When you select this command, you will be put in the edit window to select a line. After you do this, a blank line is inserted on the selected line, and all lines below it move down. The bottom line is lost. When you are done inserting lines, press the [ESC] key to return to the menu.¢¢ Delete Row: After you select a line from the edit window, it will be deleted, and all the lines below move up. Use [ESC] to exit when you are done.¢¢ Swap Char: This command lets you choose two characters from the font window, and swaps their positions.¢¢ Clear: When you choose this command from the menu, the edit buffer will be cleared so you may start editing a character from scratch.¢¢ Reverse: All of the white pixels will become black, and vice-versa, when you select this command, effectively changing the character to what it would be in inverse-video.¢¢ Quit: Guess what?¢¢ Load/Save Font: These two commands let you store and retrieve fonts from disk. At the Load or Save prompt, enter a valid path and file name for the file you want to access. If you want to use a disk in a drive other than D1, use the space bar to cycle through drives.¢¢ One>Two: This is not actually one command, but four. When this command is hilited, you can press the space bar to cycle through the possibilities: One>Two, Two>One, Sys>One, Sys>Two. Each of these copies the first character set to the second. So, if you have a modified font in set one, and choose Sys>One, pressing [RETURN] to execute the command, it will restore that character set to the system font.¢¢ Directory: This command lets you view a disk directory. At the DIR prompt, enter the file mask for the directory you want, or press [RETURN] for *.*. Like the load and save options, use the space bar to cycle through disk drives.¢¢ Flip Vertical: Flip Vertical does just that. After executing this command, the edit buffer is upside down. In future versions, I hope to have a Flip Horizontal command, but, it's not there yet.¢¢ Edit Char: This takes you into the edit buffer to modify your character. When in the editor, you can use the arrows keys and joystick to move, and the space bar, [RETURN] key, and fire button to toggle pixels on and off. When you are done editing, press [ESC] and you will be returned to the main menu.¢¢ Get/Put Char: These two commands both take you to the font window. When you execute the Get command, whatever is in the character you select is put into the edit window. When you use Put, the edit window is placed in the character set at the position you specify.¢¢ Overlay: With this command, you can overlay one character onto another. The first selection is placed on top of the second (via the logical OR command), so all pixels that are on in EITHER character are on in the second.¢¢ Restore: When you use this command, you can restore any number of characters to their visage from the system font. Press [ESC] when you're done.¢¢ Set: This command lets you choose which character set you want to work on: One, Two, or Sys. You can have your own character sets loaded into one and two, but the system font is non-editable, and is only available for reading characters.¢¢ -----¢¢¢Ed: The complete Glyph package comprises:¢¢* Glyph User Manual;¢* Glyph Font Editor (GLYPH.COM);¢* Rosetta Stone (converts Atari 9-sector fonts to BASIC statements or an Action! code block);¢* BASIC and Action! routines for using fonts with Rosetta Stone;¢* FontLoad (SpartaDOS font loader);¢* A selection of Atari 9-sector fonts.¢¢Look out for this package in the NOSAUG PD Library soon!¢
