Msg: Re: FONTITAL=<italic font> is now support in vDos-lfn

This is requiring me to recall something from much too long ago, but at one time -- on some now well out-of-service computer -- I did have something called "Tinyfont", and probably even put it to some use or other. I think it may have been a 5 point or 6 point typeface ? But I am doubting that this ever plugged into XyWrite (even Xy-3) in any way. (I could be wrong about that, though.)

There was a period, around the mid to late 1980s, when for a time I was rather involved with things typographical. We had access to these big software binders of them. Major packages that let you roll off a lot of fonts to order, if it wasn't already represented in their existing library. This was way outside of and maybe even before the Xy or Signature Speedo stuff. If I was to look at much of that today, it would probably register about like Sanskrit.

Carl, if you develop some well-tested, cool-looking setups that are in ready-to-use config files, I would be interested to try them out.

Jordan

From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: FONTITAL= is now support in vDos-lfn

Reply to note from "Wengier W" mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted
sender "wengierwu" for DMARC) Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:39:45 +0000 (UTC)

> I have added two new config file directives: FONTBOLD and
> FONTBOIT, which like FONTITAL are used to optionally specify the
> bold and bold italic versions of the font.

Oh, Wengier, this is great, just great! Not only does it allow setting
different fonts for Bold, Italics, and Bold Italics, it also creates
the possibility, in XyWrite, of using different fonts to distinguish
document text from command text. For example, I'm now loading Consolas
Bold for the command line and Nouveau_IBM for regular text and it looks
very nice, indeed. Thank you -- what a great addition to vDos-lfn and

XyWrite!

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Carl Distefano
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