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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 12:02:52 -0500
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- From: "Marvyn R. Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: NB4 and VGA fonts
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- Can anyone tell me if NB4 without the NBLingua add-on makes any
- use whatsoever of the file NB.FNT (57344 bytes long)? Do persons
- who did not purchase NBLingua find the file in their NB4
- directory? If NB.FNT is not used, why is it there? If it is used,
- how is it used? ~The space in that file at offset 1000 hex up to
- and including 1FFF hex contains the standard IBM PC symbol set
- used by Lingua. No doubt about that. But there appears to be no
- way -- at least that I can find -- to access it from a NB4
- installation without NBLingua.
-
- FOR USERS OF NB4 WITHOUT NBLINGUA AND USERS OF NB3/3.1 WITH VGA.
-
- I can send you on request a very readable sans serif VGA font (so
- called by its designers though some characters do have serifs).
- The file you will receive by email is in xx-encoded format. The
- font is from VFONT436.ARC which I mentioned here the other day. I
- have redesigned the "m"; all else is the work of the VFONT
- author. Using Pete Kvitek's EVAFONT utility, I have made a file
- called VFONT3.COM which installs the font on my Trident card and
- keeps it resident until I reboot when using NB 3.1. Tony Woozley
- reports the same for his VG-7000 16-bit Super-VGA Board, made by
- DFI (Diamond Flower Electric Instrument, Ltd.). I find the font
- much more readable than any I have used on my VGA setup.
-
- It cannot be used with NBLingua since that program insists on
- using its own font. For my own use, however, I've removed theirs
- and inserted the sans serif one in NB.FNT. [More than a simple
- substitution is involved in case you plan to roll your own. NBI's
- characters 00 and FF must be copied from Lingua's set to the new
- set.]
-
- Roy Harris - University of Virginia
- mrh3b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU, mrh3b@Virginia.Bitnet
-