Re: Upper ASCII characters in XyWrite under vDosXy

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Hi John.

I don't *think* my problem has to do with the font missing the symbols.
 But I'm interested in how you created your custom font. I have a .fon
file that has all the symbols I need, but I haven't been able to convert
it to ttf format. So I thought of taking a ttf font and editing it.
What tools did you use? I have found FontForge, which seems to have
many features, but I don't yet understand how the characters it reports
at the various positions correspond to the ones I see in a XyWrite file.


Martin

On 24.04.2015 01:43, John Paines (Redacted sender vf200@xxxxxxxx for
DMARC) wrote:

I hesitate to offer advice, since my own solution to missing symbols --
including some needed to display xywrite formatting correctly -- was to
haphazardly edit my chosen display font with a freeware editor, and copy
in the symbols I needed from a font which had them. The fonts in
question were both open license.

I didn't know what I was doing, but the edited font displays the symbols
and prints correctly as well. In this case, I added box drawing
symbols, an "em" dash and a copyright symbol, along with formatting
symbols xy3 uses. I would think any symbol could be added in this way,
as long as it's mapped below 255.

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*From:* Martin J. Osborne 
*To:* xywrite@xxxxxxxx
*Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2015 3:30 PM
*Subject:* Upper ASCII characters in XyWrite under vDosXy


I've run into a variant of a problem I've had before with upper ASCII
characters in XyWrite. Instead of the characters displaying, I see
their ASCII numbers in square brackets. For example, instead of an
alpha, I see [294].

I understand that the problem has to do with the code page. I think I
need code page 437. (My settings file says
df la 437
which seems to be correct.) In the past I have encountered the problem
on some, but not all, hardware, and have solved it by following the
instructions at
http://www.xywrite.com/ttg/appnotes/app111.txt
But those instructions clearly don't apply to vDosXy. Is there any way
of solving the problem in vDosXy?

Thanks
Martin

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