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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 22:06:00 EDT
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- From: Frank Stewart <STEWART@ANNENRES.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: spellers and separator tables
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- People have been asking about changing font pools. Here are some notes I
- wrote for myself, which may (or may not) be of some use. I changed one of
- the font pools (Transliterated Languages) extensively in order to be able
- to write colloquial Arabic in transcription. I then assigned all the lower
- case letters with diacriticals to the CTRL keyboard and the upper-case ones
- to CTRL + SHIFT, as I had on SLS. Seems to work fine.
- One problem I had--solutions welcome: I'd like to be able to have
- on the screen, and print, a lower case letter b with a dot under it. Can
- this be done?
- Frank Stewart, Annenberg Institute, Philadelphia
- STEWART@ANNENRES. Tel. (215) 238-1290 x 146
-
- In what follows, basic terminology etc. from the "Lingua Quick Start Card,"
- the part headed "Screen Fonts: Overview" and "Screen Fonts: Swapping."
- A symbol pool is a collection of 512 symbols. There are sixteen such pools,
- numbered 1 through 9 and A through G. Of these, the first twelve are given
- names by NB4. I'm not clear what the purpose is of the remaining four pools.
- The first thing is to make sure that all the symbols you want to use are in
- the primary symbol pools. With VGA there are four such pools. One of these
- four is the default pool, i.e., it is the one that is loaded when you enter
- NB4. (But as far as I can tell it doesn't matter which is the default pool,
- since VGA will swap instantaneously between the four primary pools.)
- My primary pools are:
- 1. Transliterated Languages
- 2. Transliterated Mid E and Hebrew
- 3. Complete Eur. and Cyrillic
- 4. NB Base and Maths
-
- Building a new pool. F1--Edit--Alphabet--Build. You now get a table headed
- "EGA/VGA Font Subsets. [ > Active Fonts (1st is primary)]". This heading
- (I was told by Steve of NB) uses obsolete terminology.
- Font subset = pool
- Active fonts = primary pools
- Primary font = default pool.
- So it should read "EGA/VGA Pools. [ > Primary pools (1st is default)]".
- A.
- If you put the bar on the name of a given pool (subset) and press ENTER you
- see a 32 by 16 character table (here called a set). These are the characters
- in that pool. If you press F10 you go back to the list of pools.
- When the 32 by 16 character table is on the screen, you can press F1 and get
- a 32 by 8 table called a character inventory. There are eleven such
- inventories, in order:
- NB Base
- Multilingual 1
- Multilingual 2
- Math and Symbols
- Phonetic
- Hebrew
- Vocalized Hebrew
- Greek
- Cyrillic
- Extended Cyrillic
- Options
- PgUp and PgDn will move you through these eleven inventories.
- F1 toggles you back and forth between an inventory and the pool, i.e., the
- 32 by 16 character table of a pool.
- You can take a character from a character inventory and put it in a pool
- (replacing an existing character in that pool). To do this, you put the
- cursor on the character you want from the character table; press ENTER, which
- shifts you to the pool (i.e., the 32 by 16 table); then put the cursor on the
- character in the pool that you want to replace; and then press ENTER again.
- B.
- If when you are viewing the list of names of pools you press F2, you get the
- following menu:
- Activate current subset
- Make current subset primary
- Rearrange order of subsets
- For the first two, you press ENTER and the pool on whose name the bar is
- becomes the current pool or (as the case may be) the default pool.
- For the third option, you press ENTER, and only then move the bar to the name
- of the pool that you want to move to a different place on the list. The
- instructions for this are clear.
- C.
- To end the session, press F10. You get the menu:
- Continue customization
- Quit without saving
-