Re: FONTITAL=

["Wengier W" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "wengierwu" for DMARC)]

Hi Carl and Harry,

I have added two new config file directives: FONTBOLD and FONTBOIT, which like FONTITAL are used to optionally specify the bold and bold italic versions of the font. For example, for the Consola font, the fonts consolab, consolai and consolaz are its bold, italic and bold italic versions respectively.

Note that all of these directives will point to font files that actually exist. I doubt there is a "small" version of the font available, so FONTSMALL probably won't do anything useful. Similar for other FONT[xxx] directives. In other words, if no such font variants actually exist, then FONT[xxxx] basically won't do anything good. Hope this helps.

Wengier
  
 


 
 
 
 On Sunday, July 31, 2016 5:10 PM, Harry Binswanger  wrote:


 

Wengier,


Excellent. Yes, I'd noticed that the "d," in particular can get
cut off in some fonts, so this is a welcome improvement.


Also, it adds simplicity and flexibility to the color scheme, because one
doesn't have to use (I assume) any particular MoDe number for the
italics.


I second Carl's request for FONTBOLD. And of great help to me would be
FONTSMALL, because for the programs I write using XyWrite, I like to have
the comments in much smaller type, so that they are there when I need
them, but don't distract from the code itself.


Hmmm, maybe that's a generic way to do this, with the user being able to
define FONT[whatever name he assigns here]=[user's choice of Windows
font]. Is that feasible?


--Harry


I want to add that in order to
use the FONTITAL directive you will need to have the corresponding italic
font file of course. For example, for the "FONTITAL=CONSOLAI"
option to work you will need to have the font file named Consolai.ttf,
which is usually found in C:\Windows\Fonts. I hope it will be included in
the next vDos-lfn for XyWrite release too.


Wengier




On Sunday, July 31, 2016 9:33 AM,
Wengier W  wrote:




Hi all,


In the recent builds of vDos-lfn, visual display of italicized text is
supported by setting the WP directive in the vDos-lfn config file. With
this feature the characters will be slanted automatically by vDos-lfn,
but certain characters that lean over a lot (such as the lowercase italic
d) might not look very well in some fonts. On the other hand, fonts such
as CONSOLA has corresponding italic versions, so I decided to add the
feature to use the actual italic version of the font to visually display
the italicized text, which can be specified with the FONTITAL directive.
For example, the font "CONSOLAI" is the italic version of the
font "CONSOLA", so if you specify the font "CONSOLA"
using the FONT directive in the config file then you can specify the font
"CONSOLAI" using the FONTITAL directive. If there is an actual
italic version of the font it is recommended to use it since it tends to
look better (but if you cannot find such a version then vDos-lfn will
automatically slant the characters as before). This feature is now
supported in the latest vDos-lfn build, i.e. build 2016.07.31. The latest
vDos-lfn build can be found at the usual location (for the 2015.11.01
branch):


http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/old/vdos-lfn-201511.zip
http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/old/vdos-lfn-201511.zip


Wengier