vga mono fonts

["Myron Gochnauer" goch@xxxxxxxx]

Perhaps this is one way of generating more mono-spaced fonts to use with
XyWrite when it is run in a Win2K/XP box via "%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /c
editor.exe/e4000". Have a look at:

www.semware.com

It is a programmers' editor. Among the utilities on the website is a little
program called Vga2Fon. According to its author:

"Vga2Fon is a tool for converting old DOS VGA fonts into Windows fonts. This
tool was created to help generate monospace fonts for use with The Semware
Editor Professional (TSE Pro), but the fonts can be used with any Windows
program. Note that the fonts are bitmap fonts, not TrueType fonts, so they
are not scalable."

"Run vga2fon -? to display help information about how to use the tool.
Basically, you can convert a VGA font by running vga2fon -9 -n "Font Name"
vgafontfile.f14 windowsfontfile.fon where "Font Name" is the name you want
to show up in the Choose Font dialog for Windows programs."

"After converting a VGA font into a Windows font, you must install the
Windows font so other Windows programs can use it. Open the Control Panel,
and double click on Fonts. Then drag the Windows font file you converted
into the Fonts folder. Close any Windows programs that are running, and open
them again and the newly installed font will be available."

I haven't tried it yet, but perhaps this can produce Xy-WinBox monospaced
fonts. Now, if I can just find some old DOS VGA fonts in the haystack...

Myron