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bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
>In article <57652@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> kamal@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Kamal Mansour) writes:

>>  I'm trying to display a font under Windows 3.1 which, 
>>  like the IBM OEM character set, has encoded characters 
>>  in the C0 region (i.e. codes 0 through 31).

>>  The real problem lies in this:  instead of displaying
>>  all of the glyphs, some Windows programs react as
>>  if control characters had been issued.  The results
>>  are varied and seem to depend on each program.

>>  Has anyone succeeded in doing what I'm attempting here?

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>Well, you might want to look at the Computer Modern fonts in Adobe 
>Type 1 format for Windows.  They use the 0 - 31 character range...

>Berthold K.P. Horn
>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

A partial solution, and a question:

SOLUTION:  There is a shareware TT/PS font available on CompuServe called
'Video Terminal Screen' that accomplishes this.  The font is a bitmap
representation of the 8x16 textmode character set, smileys, music notes
and all. It is useful for displaying DOS screens in WinWord documents (eg.
user's manuals).

The standard roman font is available for download in the DTPFORUM library
under PCfonts (lib 9). It's called VTSR-?.ZIP (? = T or P). The bold and
italic fonts are available from the author for $10. The bold and italic fonts
are actually the same bitmapped characters re-encoded. The bold font shifts
the 'line drawing characters' down to the 'ABCD' range, and the italic font
shifts the 0-31 range up. This allows you to type in the special characters
using the normal keyboard driver.

This solution is only partial, because I'm not sure that the original poster
wishes to display IBM OEM characters, or simply wants to display unusual
encodings in ANY font. If it is the latter, I suppose he could use the same
trick to make new fonts with the same glyphs, but re-encoded to more access-
ible vectors.


QUESTION:  I haven't heard of the Computer Modern font before. Could someone
mail me something about it and its availability? Is it share- or pay-ware?


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