Using the Font Editor

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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 21:23:17 EDT
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From: hplabs!hao!ward@Berkeley (Mike Ward)
I've gotten a few call about using the font editor, so I thought I'd post this.
If you got the version of the font editor that comes up with
the selection window and the font "system" selected, you should
type (the key, not the word), then .

This should leave you with a big window with a little zero up
at the top, and a little window. The zero refers to character
0, which should be a starting point if you want to create a new
font. If you want to create a new font, play with the character
region stuff (increase-decrease ascend-descend, add-delete columns).

"Read fonts" reads from a file created by font editor's "save font"
command. Neither will have anything to do with the font file(s) created
by font mover. To use font mover compatible files, read using
"load from resource", write using "install font". Font editor
will create a file named "fonts" that is in the same format as
the "fonts" file created by font mover. To use it with font
mover, use setfile to change the creator and type.

Installing fonts is memory intensive. It is easy to run out of
memory (system error 25) if the font is too big (like New York-24)
I plan on trying to build a London-72 font in several stages.
Should be fun. The Fat Mac should take care of this.

Have fun, and you get into trouble give me a call, or drop me
a line.

Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD
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