Re: Default font

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

I have tried all the regular fonts, and of them I like Consolas the best.
One of the others does not clearly distinguish the zero from the capital "O."


I just tried out Google's font Cousine, which I like better than Consolas
on vDos-lfn for Xy. Cousine .ttf files can be downloaded from:

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/cousine



Hi Harry,

Robert J. Sawyer has added to his page on using WordStar under vDos-lfn
with an extensive discussion of employing various font families with
vDos-lfn. He had mentioned that most of the information will be of use to
all vDos-lfn users, not just those using WordStar. So you and other
vDos-lfn users may want to see the link below that discusses suitable
fonts for vDos-lfn on his page:


http://sfwriter.com/ws-vdos.htm#fonts

Hope the information will be useful.

Wengier


On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 10:38 PM, Wengier W
 wrote:



Hi Harry,

Yes, directives like ITALFONT, BOLDFONT and BOITFONT require the FONT
directive to be set. You cannot use external TTF fonts as italic/bold/bold
italic fonts when you use the internal font as the default font. I believe
the internal font was created by Jos, the author of vDos, so I have no
idea about its real name. The internal font is not directly compatible
with external TTF fonts being set as italic/bold/bold italic fonts; I
tried once to combine them but the result looked bad so I disabled such
combinations. So you do need to set the FONT directive in order to make
xxxxFONT directives to take effect. Hope this helps.


Wengier


On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 10:09 PM, Harry Binswanger  wrote:


Wengier,

I like the default font that you get if you don't specify a font for FONT
in config.txt. But if I do that, I can't get the fonts I try to specify for
the italics, bold, etc. I'm thinking that if I knew the name of the default
font, I could assign that and then be able to use the other fonts, such as
CONSOLAI for italics and SourceCodePro-Bold for bold.

I'm using 1.53 and I switched the syntax from FONTxxxx to xxxxFONT, so
that's not the problem. Let me be quite explicit:

This doesn't give CONSOLAI, etc.

#FONT=\fonts\LUCON
ITALFONT=\fonts\CONSOLAI
BOLDFONT=\fonts\SourceCodePro-Bold
BOITFONT=\fonts\SourceCodePro-Bold

This works fine:

FONT=\fonts\LUCON
ITALFONT=\fonts\CONSOLAI
BOLDFONT=\fonts\SourceCodePro-Bold
BOITFONT=\fonts\SourceCodePro-Bold

Thanks very much.

Regards,
Harry