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- From: milo@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (John DiCamillo)
- Subject: Re: Glyphs encoded below 32
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.184108.5537@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com>
- Organization: Rockwell International
- References: <57652@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> <1jh009INN892@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:41:08 GMT
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- bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
- >In article <57652@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> kamal@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Kamal Mansour) writes:
-
- >> I'm trying to display a font under Windows 3.1 which,
- >> like the IBM OEM character set, has encoded characters
- >> in the C0 region (i.e. codes 0 through 31).
-
- >> The real problem lies in this: instead of displaying
- >> all of the glyphs, some Windows programs react as
- >> if control characters had been issued. The results
- >> are varied and seem to depend on each program.
-
- >> Has anyone succeeded in doing what I'm attempting here?
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Well, you might want to look at the Computer Modern fonts in Adobe
- >Type 1 format for Windows. They use the 0 - 31 character range...
-
- >Berthold K.P. Horn
- >Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
-
- A partial solution, and a question:
-
- SOLUTION: There is a shareware TT/PS font available on CompuServe called
- 'Video Terminal Screen' that accomplishes this. The font is a bitmap
- representation of the 8x16 textmode character set, smileys, music notes
- and all. It is useful for displaying DOS screens in WinWord documents (eg.
- user's manuals).
-
- The standard roman font is available for download in the DTPFORUM library
- under PCfonts (lib 9). It's called VTSR-?.ZIP (? = T or P). The bold and
- italic fonts are available from the author for $10. The bold and italic fonts
- are actually the same bitmapped characters re-encoded. The bold font shifts
- the 'line drawing characters' down to the 'ABCD' range, and the italic font
- shifts the 0-31 range up. This allows you to type in the special characters
- using the normal keyboard driver.
-
- This solution is only partial, because I'm not sure that the original poster
- wishes to display IBM OEM characters, or simply wants to display unusual
- encodings in ANY font. If it is the latter, I suppose he could use the same
- trick to make new fonts with the same glyphs, but re-encoded to more access-
- ible vectors.
-
-
- QUESTION: I haven't heard of the Computer Modern font before. Could someone
- mail me something about it and its availability? Is it share- or pay-ware?
-
-
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