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FNT2 has been changed slightly from the previous copy in Jazz to be
more universably suitable. A total of 7 characters are affected, as
follows:
ASCII Previous Now
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0 Ellipsis Null star from old FNT1
9 Diamond Tab character from Java
10 Inverse Diamond Newline character from Java
12 Female Symbol Formfeed character from Java
13 Music Note Carriage Return from Java
30 Up Arrow Scrolled off to left in edit line (...)
31 Down Arrow Scrolled off to right in edit line (...)
The tab, newline, and two scrolling characters are the most important for
general use; the other characters were changed to be consistent with Java.
The UFL comes with two zip files, `fnt1.zip' and `fnt2.zip'. These contain
several alternate fonts to the ones that come with the UFL. However, not
all may be suitable for the applications you are using.
- The original FNT1 is stored in the file `fnt1.zip' as `ufl1.fnt'.
- The original FNT2 is stored in the file `fnt2.zip' as `ufl2.fnt'.
These fonts deserve special credit since they were designed specifically
for the UFL. A description of each follows.
If you come up with some good alternative fonts, please mail them to me so
I can include them in future releases of this package.
- fnt1/euro1.fnt and fnt1/euro2.fnt
From: Joergen Blomgren
- euro1.fnt:
- Character 0-31: Designed on fnt2/ufl2.fnt, except a few
characters.
- Character 3-6: Cards are replaced with the first
letter of the name.
- Character 29: Single plus sign instead of double plus
sign.
- euro2.fnt:
- Characters 0-31: ASCII/character-value except:
- Character 0: Star as in UFL
- Character 7: A musical note (bell)
- Character 8: BS (backspace)
- Character 9: >| (tab forward)
- Character 10: LF (line feed)
- Character 12: FF (form feed)
- Character 13: CR (carriage return)
- Character 27: EC (escape)
- Character 30: .. (left continue)
- Character 31: .. (right continue)
- Both:
- Characters 32-126: Standard characters, with small
modifications.
- Character 101: Is changed in style of fnt1/euro3.fnt
- Character 127: In style of the HP48 font.
- Characters 128-159: Greek and graphic characters in
style of the HP48 font.
- Characters 160-255: International and some graphic
characters in style of HP48, all characters are on the
same baseline, so some characters are a bit squashed,
but I think it looks bad when characters are unaligned
in the base line. Lowercase e umlauts are changed in
the style of fnt1/euro3.fnt.
- fnt1/euro3.fnt
From: Rodney Hess
- The baseline for this font is the original FNT1
contained in the UFL release (fnt1/ufl1.fnt).
- The lowercase e (char 101) has been modified to look
like Java's. As Java's e is more readable with
accents than the original, a consistent look among
the lowercase e's is maintained with this change.
- Character 127 has been replaced with a greyscale block
along the lines of the one found in the built-in big
font.
- Character 161 replaced with a cent symbol.
- The original upside-down question mark (char 191) was
facing the wrong direction. This has been fixed.
- Characters 192-214, 217-221: Capital characters. Some
of these sit below the baseline to aid legibility.
For clarification, the twiddle mark is represented as
two pixels right justified, for example, as in
character 209.
- Characters 224-246, 249-253, 255: Lowercase characters.
- fnt1/euro4.fnt
From: Ivan Rivera Rodriguez
This is an european-suitable small font for use with the UFL. It contains
the same characters and ordering as the HP standard font, except for the first
30 characters, which are the same used in the standard UFL FNT1. The different
accentuations are nearly always discernible, except for the circumflex, which
had to be reduced to a single point in order to properly identify the vowels
under it.
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