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Re: FONTITAL= is now support in vDos-lfn

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):


Wengier