Re: DOS Windows vs. Full screen, ...and Fonts

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 I can't believe that I allowed that typo in the subject line to
 pass.

 To tell the truth, I don't know a whole lot about the technicalities
 associated with fonts. I just know about the fonts that I find
 pleasing to the eye when writing and which one's I find most annoy-
 ing. It was as a result of Robert's suggestions of a few days ago
 that I began experimenting with VGA fonts, and in the process found
 what I deem to be a very attractive courier font in the package
 FONTED30. I've since modified the font quite a bit, and if I have
 to live with XY4, full screen, and this modified courier, I think
 I can do that. Of course, I'd rather have an attractive DOS
 window font under XP, but I don't know if that is even possible at
 the moment. As I said previously, and attractive DOS window font
 for XP would be the DOS window font of Windows95. So I am not able
 to answer your question Manuel, but I am willing to test out what-
 ever you develop as soon as I again have an XP machine available,
 which should be soon. At the moment, I'm using Window95, and I've
 learned from experience that what works well under W95, can be an
 absolute disaster under XP.

 M.W. Poirier

 P.S.: Manuel, I'm willing to send you the Courier font for DOS full
 screen that I've developed, based on the Courier font that came with
 FONTED30. Mind you I am making minor changes to it daily.

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, M.C. wrote:
>
> I have a couple of fonts for windowed mode (XyWrite in a Windows window)
> customized for my resolution of choice (1280x1024) in order to fill the
> whole screen: one of them is for Ansified XyWrite (25 lines); the other
> one is for standard XyWrite (28 lines). Unfortunately, they are not
> usable at lower resolutions because the characters look enormous. In a
> near future (if I am less busy than now) I can attempt to build a font
> for standard XyWrite at lower resolutions. So, I would like to know if
> 1024x768 would be OK (I suppose it's the usual resolution for the
> members of the list). Am I right?
> Manuel Castelao
>
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