Msg: Re: Mnemonic MoDe for 'small' text

Hi Harry,

You should be able to see the small font from the color table, where the FG color is the same as the BG color as specified from the WP directive (default is 1, i.e. blue). I have just updated vDos-lfn to add the SMALLCLR directive, which allows to change the output FG color of the small text (default is 7, i.e. white). Hope this helps.

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
>
>
>On Saturday, August 6, 2016 7:20 PM, Carl Distefano mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>
>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.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@xxxxxxxxmailto:cld@xxxxxxxx

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