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(Table from German LETTER.HLP)
Short survey on keys during font editing ("Bearbeitung"):
ESC exit editing F1 Help
ENTER/Space set dot Alt-F1 previous help
Move cursor key to set/unset points (continuously in auto mode)
TAB Cursor move picture TAB n Cursor move picture n dots
INSERT Cursor go to direction DELETE Cursor delete to direction
F2 save font (=alphabet) Alt-F2 put char from left to right window
F3 load font 2 (=ABC2) Alt-F3 get char from right to left window
Ct-F3 mix right on left char F8 delete left char
F4 goto char (left window) Alt-F4 goto char (right window)
Ct-F4 single step on/off F6 auto mode on/off
F5 swap left/right char Alt-F5 switch right (ABC2 / alternate char)
Alt-F6 help lines on/off
F7 survey on font dot widths Alt-F7 survey on font 2 dot widths
F9 load+print left char Alt-F9 load+print right char
Single step denotes step width when paging via PgUp/PgDn. Single step on
will visit every character, single step off only defined characters.
Right window may display alternate character ("Res" = "Reserve") or
alternate font ("ABC2"). You can put to, get and mix characters from right
to left window.
"TAB Cursor" means: press tab key, then one of the four cursor keys. This
key denotes direction.
Set dots with ENTER. Moving around with cursor keys will erase dots.
In auto mode, moving around with cursor keys sets dots.
Horicontally adjacent dots must not be set, always set dots as "x x x", not
as "xxx" (printer feature).
Always keep printer available if you want to print.
"Super Druck" will print banners of many meters.
Be sure to save (F2) changed fonts. LETTER won't warn you before leaving!!!
If you really need that program, let me know. We could do one of the
following:
- translate LETTER.HLP to English language (not so bad suggestion)
- translate LETTER source files to Turbo Pascal 6.0's Turbo Vision to
enable mouse, SAA surface and the like (even better but more work)
- of course, some people might do it (far) better themselves. The format of
LET-files is very simple, so - why not?
(Format, if I remember right: two bytes length of file, i.e. offset of
byte past last data byte in file. Then for every defined character: one
byte the ascii code of the character, second byte the number of columns,
then the data = (three times the number of columns) bytes, in order
upmost 8 bits - middle 8 bits - lowest 8 bits, each column.