Re: Mnemonic MoDe for 'small' text

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Wengier,

1. Re version-checking, your text gives a URL to where I can get just
vdos-lfn.exe, but it downloads, instead, the setup.exe. Can you tell me
again the URL for picking up vdos-lfn.exe?


2. Finally got the small font to work! I don't understand how though.
Smallclr sets the foreground, but somehow the only setting for WP that will
make it visible is WP=XY,1. Are there only two possible settings for WP--1
and 0?


Anyway, I got the exact thing I wanted, so thank you.

Regards,
Harry






Hi Harry,

If you use "WP=XY,0" (rather than "WP=XY,1" or so) in the config file then
you might not see small text in the color table. This seems to be a
limitation of that color table; however, when you follow the instruction
mentioned by Carl, then small text will show up properly in the editor. I
tried it myself and it surely works. Hope it works for you too.


Wengier


On Sunday, August 7, 2016 9:47 AM, Harry Binswanger  wrote:


Wengier,

I'm not seeing the small font after just updating with VDLUPD and seeing a
vDos-lfn.exe dated 8/06/2016 at 10:49pm.

And when I get it working, will I be able to control the
foreground/background color of the small text? (I'm looking for a small but
light color to use for comments, to make the visible but unobtrusive, like
a light grey on a white background (I use white background for everything).

Regards,
Harry

>Hi Carl,
>
>I did make attempt to display strikethru text visually in XyWrite when I
>first added support for italic text in vDos-lfn. However, I dropped this
>idea when I found that the default color used for such text is the same as
>the default color for selected menu items in Xy4, so if I do this then the
>menu items will look bad. Since strikethru text is probably not used very
>often, I think maybe we can ignore this for now unless there is a very
>good solution for this. I believe most of the styled text can already be
>displayed visually in vDos-lfn by now.
>
>Wengier
>
>
mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>So ... it's easy to create a mnemonic MoDe for "small" text. Just
>assign MoDe 0 to the named mode of your choice. I chose MoDe FL, which
>stands for FLashing, but could also stand for FLattened; in
>SETTINGS.DFL (or another printer file):
>
>MD FL=0
>
>Then your eXPanded view for small text would look like this:
>
>This is small text.
>
>Here's a screenshot (using the LiberationMono font family, which is
>actually very nice):
>
http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xy/flsmall.pnghttp://users.datarealm
.com/ammaze/xy/flsmall.png>http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xy/flsmall.png

>
>Now, here's a thing: XyWrite also has MoDe SO, for strikeout (a/k/a
>strike-over or strike-through). This is used for printing, but is there
>also a possibility to add a visual strikeout for the vDos-lfn screen?

>
>Wengier?

>
>--
>Carl Distefano
>mailto:cld@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx

>
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