Re: Mnemonic MoDe for 'small' text

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Wengier,

I tried lots of values for n in WP=Xy,n but none worked except 1. In fact,
I could see no effect other than whether the small text was visible or not,
and it was visible only in 1.


What is the intent of the n value? You said it is to set the background,
but of what? I can't see it changing any background no matter what the
value of n.


Re picking up vDos-lfn.exe: I know about the zip file, but I was looking
for a direct .exe download. I guess some systems don't accept .exe file
downloads, so you don't make that available. Having access to that would
save me, if not others, about 8 (minor) steps, though.


But again, problem solved (by accident), and the results are shown here:
http://www.hblist.com/p/vdos_screen_shot.jpg

Regards,
Harry


Harry,

The URL for the zip file containing the 2015.11.01 branch of vDos-lfn is
the following:


http://individual.utoronto.ca/wengier/old/vdos-lfn-201511.zip

And no, there are certainly more than two possible settings for the second
parameter of the WP directive. For example, WP=XY,5 or WP=XY,6 should work
too (you should be able to see the small text from the color table). Hope
this helps.


Wengier


On Sunday, August 7, 2016 8:47 PM, Harry Binswanger  wrote:


Wengier,

1. Re version-checking, your text gives a URL to where I can get just
vdos-lfn.exe, but it downloads, instead, the setup.exe. Can you tell me
again the URL for picking up vdos-lfn.exe?

2. Finally got the small font to work! I don't understand how though.
Smallclr sets the foreground, but somehow the only setting for WP that will
make it visible is WP=XY,1. Are there only two possible settings for WP--1
and 0?

Anyway, I got the exact thing I wanted, so thank you.

Regards,
Harry





>Hi Harry,
>
>If you use "WP=XY,0" (rather than "WP=XY,1" or so) in the config file then
>you might not see small text in the color table. This seems to be a
>limitation of that color table; however, when you follow the instruction
>mentioned by Carl, then small text will show up properly in the editor. I
>tried it myself and it surely works. Hope it works for you too.
>
>Wengier
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mailto:hb@xxxxxxxxhb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>
>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@xxxxxxxxcld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >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.pnghttp://users.datare
alm.com/ammaze/xy/flsmall.png>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@xxxxxxxxcl
d@xxxxxxxx


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