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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Font Sizes in OS/2 Window.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.010645.11820@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 01:06:45 GMT
- References: <93007.142945JWHITE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <93007.142945JWHITE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Jim White <JWHITE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >Is there a way to enhance the selection of Font sizes that are available
- >in an OS/2 or DOS window?
- >I'm running OS/2 on a IBM PS/2 Model 70 386 with 8514a support on a smallish
- >(13 in diagonal) monitor. I like to run the IBM TCP/IP TN3270 product (runs
- >in std OS/2 window) in 43 line mode, but none of the current font sizes/configs
- >really fit nicely and look readable to me (or at least I'd like a 'better'
- >fit for my eyes).
- >The answer doesn't seem to be in installing new fonts using the Font Palette
- >in the System Setup folder. The fonts I'd like to change are somehow different
- >from these. I currently have the following sizes available.....
- >8x8, 10x6, 10x8, 12x8, 14x6, 14x8, 15x7, 16x8, 16x12, 18x8, 18x10, 20x12,
- >22x12, 25x7, 30x12.
- >I'd like to try a 16x10, or a 17x10. Is there any hope?
-
- Hope, always. One of my wishlist items is to provide the capability
- to use monospaced ATM typefaces in these text windows. So far, it
- hasn't happened.
-
- Until that happens (and hopefully it will), you'll be restricted to
- those type sizes.
-
- The 18x10 doesn't suit you that well?
-
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