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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: VGA text-mode font designer/loader?
- Keywords: font VGA OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.171729.19108@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 17:17:29 GMT
- References: <1992Oct25.102844.25944@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Oct25.102844.25944@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
- >I have a custom screen fo (Sanskrit) which I use for all
- >editing work. I have twiddled with funny accents a lot of
- >the chars in the range 224-255, and I've been using it for
- >years with no complaints under DOS. Over the years there
- >have been several programs available which allowed one to
- >replace default EGA/VGA fonts with a customized one, and
- >that's the sort of prog I've got used to using. The
- >current one I use is pd and was put out by PCMag, and is
- >called LOADFONT. It does a lot, and is tiny and free.
- >This still works in a DOS window, but not under OS/2, since
- >a DOS prog run from the OS/2 command line makes a screen-reset
- >happen.
-
- If there is a Sanskrit code page (could be), I would use that (set by
- the CODEPAGE line in CONFIG.SYS).
-
- In your DOS full screen sessions, go ahead and use your DOS utility.
- But run it from a DOS full screen command line, not from the OS/2
- command line (unless you use the START /FS command).
-
- >On a related theme, when one opens a DOS windowed session, one can
- >choose from a range of different sized screen text fonts. Is there
- >a way of getting at these, and changing the charset? Are they
- >loaded from code-page files? Has anyone done anything with this?
-
- The code page is changed using the CHCP command (either DOS or OS/2
- session). The font size is a systemwide global for windowed sessions,
- although you can change it manually for each individual window. Look
- in the menu in the upper left hand corner of your text window.
-
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