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- Short: XEN Amelioration with Many Quot Marks
- Uploader: Johan Björnson <johan.bjornson@rocketmail.com>
- Version: 2nd official
- Type: text/font
- Requires: The XEN font installed
-
- Malmö, Sweden
- 9.8.97
-
- The FlodisXEN project commenced after I'd downloaded lots of fonts from the
- Aminet - and other relevant sites - in search of a complete collection of
- the various quotation marks used in different languages. Unfortunately none
- was to be found.
- Feeling dubious about their existence at all, I decided to modify the fixed-
- width, 9 points XEN font (from the MagicWB package) to suit my needs.
- Eventually I ended up, not only with my own quotation mark interpretations,
- but also with a brand new "g" letter, which I hope you'll like.
- (German users will happily find their special "double comma" quotation mark
- at ASCII code 184 - instead of the cedilla sign.)
- Moreover, I did the "æ" letter 5 pixels wide, touched up the ASCII 183 (big
- dot), tidied the 171, 187 angle quotes and decreased the 60, 62 "less/more
- than" signs so they can be used as quotes as well.
-
- Minor adjustements in this version:
- The combination lowercase-uppercase no longer clashes.
- Brackets and tilde now immersed.
- Brand new colon, semicolon, comma and quotation marks. They are smaller than
- the ungainly ones included in last version.
- ASCII 168 (diaeresis mark without vowel) turned into a quotation mark.
-
- There aren't many decent font editors on the Aminet. "Typeface" (by David
- Kinder) doesn't let you draw and erase a font's individual pixels (only flip
- them around); "Font Editor" (by Tim Robinson) trashes the font if you
- overwrite an existing file.
- My creative joy faded a bit when I realized that an archive I had uploaded
- contained corrupt files, destroyed by the latter editor. Embarrassing!
- But that was before I discovered "Workbench Font Editor" (by Patrick F.
- Clark), an excellent, intuitive application, appropriate to font-concerned
- sundries - may it be the production of a 50 pixels color font or solely the
- modification of ASCII code 255.
- It's a wonderful piece of non-commercial (remarkable!) software.
-
- Suitably, copy the stuff in the XEN drawer to your SYS:Fonts/XEN drawer.
- You must have the XEN font properly installed, since FlodisXEN functions as
- a 9 points replacement only.
-
- If you use FlodisXEN, please let me know! Without feedback, a cessation may
- affect the development and updates to the Aminet perhaps won't happen.
- I cannot be held responsible for any damage the software within this archive
- may cause you or your computer system, in any way. Use it at your own peril;
- don't torment me with junky e-mail inundations if your computer is burning
- or if you should feel an ardent devotion to FlodisXEN.
-
- Some text strings (e.g. "qg") have very little spacing, due to the font's
- width of merely 6 pixels. I don't want to increase it and cause an overall
- impression of too airy gaps, so you'll have to live with that.
-
- Remember: I'm not concealing the fact that I've got some ideas from the
- "AlexisMachine" font (included in Malice/BRONX's Aminet archive "MLC-Font"
- found in directory text/font), and the Wordworth font "DigitaSans."
-
- /Johan Björnson
-
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- 580 387 33.2% 09-Aug-97 16:22:26 FlodisXEN.info
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