I have tried all the regular fonts, and of them I like Consolas the best.
One of the others does not clearly distinguish the zero from the capital "O."
I just tried out Google's font Cousine, which I like better than Consolas
on vDos-lfn for Xy. Cousine .ttf files can be downloaded from:
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/cousine>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#fontshttp://sfwriter.com/ws-vdos.htm#fonts>
>Hope the information will be useful.
>
>Wengier
>
>
>On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 10:38 PM, Wengier W
>
mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx 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
mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx 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
>
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