From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000/Atari Falcon
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:54:22 GMT

das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
: I'll redescribe this on my OS/2 2.0.

:)

: I do have some fonts to start with, but let be example how I get new fonts.
: First, I download them.  I put them in my D:\Fonts directory.  I uncompress
: them all with booz.exe, a simple .zoo extractor. I minimize/close that

That's very good.  You learned quickly.  ;)

: OS/2 shell. I click through a couple of nested folders until I bring up my
: Font Palette. From here I could Mouse Button#2 DRAG a font listed and *exampl
: to the desktop, a text windows, a nested windows, and thereby change ALL the
: fonts in that _region_.  Or hold down the Alt key to make it system with.  I
: have 8-point Times Romaneverywhere, for example.  Any, back to the downloaded
: fonts- At the bottom of the Font Palette, I click on the 'Edit Font...' butto
: I dialog box pops up, where by I could change 'rotate out' a font from the th
: isplayed fonts (a  max of 8 are shownat any one time) and show a new one for

Sounds like you're asking for extended preferences here.

: MB2-dragging...but I don't wanna do that.  I want to 'Add...' a font.  So I 
: press that button. Another dialog box pops up, with a test field, where it
: asks me to speficy WHERE the downloaded fonts can be found.  I Click at the
: beginning of the text-field, and type: D:\FONTS
: The hard drive whirrs a while, and pops up yet another dialog box.  Here,
: i can click off a list of font files it found, and click 'Add...' at the bott
: when I am finished.  Voila, it's done.

And now I wonder if you've ever used the program on your fonts disk
for AmigaDos 2.0, in the System directory, entitled "Fountain".  On
the left is a listview for the "source directory".  On the right, your
font assigns can be cycled through, and you can edit your CGFont
descriptions.  Back to the left, let's say you totally lack
originality, and your hard drive is labeled E:.  You select your
directory using the ASL File requester which is set up to give you a
list of directories and volumes through a standard call, and suddenly
all of the fonts it found there magically appear.  Select the fonts
you'd like to install after selecting which assigned Fonts: folder
you'd like to put them into, and click the "Install" button.  Poof, it
installs them.  Then, go an edit the descriptions to decide which
sizes you wish to appear for programs that can't make use of CGFonts
on their own.  I typically use 8,9,13,15,19,24,36,48,60,72, and 90 as
mine, it covers most of the bases I'll ever run across.  I also put a
size of 288 in there, for the banners I put up every once in a while.

And here's something rather unnoticed about your post...

: NOW, when ever I typesomething in an Editor, or that Enhanced editor (and I  
: me some other WP - I don't have one), I select the top-line menu that corresp
: s to 'change font', or 'style' or some such pertaining to changing
: font style.  A dialog box pops up, witha list of all the fonts at my
: disposal, and a graphics box showing a _sample_ of the highlighted font.  I 
: either double-click the font I want, or highlight it and press 'Ok'.  THat's
: it, and now the font has changed.

Do you know what an ASL Font Requester looks like, out of curiosity?
A listview of fonts with a little display of what the font looks like
down below...

You sure you have 2.0?  (ASL is the standard requester for the system,
just in case you didn't know.  ;)

Greg

--
(: (: (: (: Have you overdosed on smileys today?  Why NOT!?! :) :) :) :) :)
(: "...and here's Clinton giving the correct spelling of bong-resin..."  :)
(:	gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu			Gregory R. Block         :)
(: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (: (:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy