Re: XY4Dos Fonts

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Just some more comments about fonts I disregarded in my last message:
- There is, at Siebert's site, a very useful utility: Console black
fill. It's free and it puts the unused (by XYWrite) part of the screen
in black when you are using using the program in a desktop window.
- The alternate fonts (Hvdosfnt and Hvwinfnt) I pointed out in my
message are only for 437 cp.
- There are, at least in my display, small but perceivable differences
in size and screen contrast between Win98SE and Win2000. The change of
environment could change preferences of a user in matter of fonts.
- Under Ansified XyWrite, the possible choice of fonts could be
dramatically improved because it's easy to produce .FON fonts from .TTF
fonts using the Softy program. But we are confronte with legal issues
because TTF fonts are copyrighted. In a private use, I have modified
several fonts I legally own and now I have a really beautiful screen
but, obviously, I can't make those fonts public. I am always referring
to monospaced fonts, the ones you could use in a desktop DOS window. To
my limited knowledge, under standard XyWrite, it's necessary to modify
in depth the fonts to cover 437 or 850 codepages.
I have been searching GPL fonts (not only free but with the possibility
of legally modifying them) but the fonts I have found are not suitable
for our purposes: either there are not very legible or they have
proportions that are not very adaptable to my purpose of convering the
whole screen. In my case, the fonts that cover the whole screen are in a
proportion 1:2 (16 x 37) and I would like to know if this is the general
rule for other users.
By the way and just for curiosity: am I the only user of Ansified
XyWrite on our list?
Manuel Castelao