Re: Default font

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

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