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Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.

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From: Buddy Donnelly
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00
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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:38:34, Edward Jaffe <edjaffe@phoenixsoftware.com> a 
οΏ½crit dans un message:

> Buddy Donnelly wrote:
> > 
> > Use an INI editor like UNIMAINT to open OS2.INI (USER Ini) and go to the
> > Application PM_SystemFonts.
> > 
> > Or, in REGEDIT2, go to "My Computer" (makes ya wanta puke, doesn't it?),
> > then to HINI_USER_PROFILE and from there drill down to PM_SystemFonts.
> > 
> > DefaultFont---"10.System Proportional" is the standard one, and the only
> > font that you are sure of seeing *all* dialogs sized correctly for. (If you
> > change this, you may lose some of the text on dialogs; that's a warning.)
> > Type in "9.WarpSans Bold", close it up, reboot and you're in business.
> 
> Also, if you have a Matrox video card, you can use the "MGA Settings" dialog
> to set the default font.  I tried WarpSans and many things looked great! 
> Also, many dialogs don't show all of the data (annoying *and* UGLY).  After
> months of using WarpSans as a default, I eventually went back to System
> Proportional 10.

Yup, plus take a look at Richard Castle's very nice work with DE (Dialog 
Enhancer) which both replaces the default font *and* reformats the dialog 
windows to match the new geometry. DE patches Warp's (and some third party 
programs') own DLLs and executables to make these changes.

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
donnelly@tampabay.rr.com
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From: donnelly@tampabay.rr.com (Buddy Donnelly)
Subject: Re: Setting Warpsans as default font.
Date: 1999/07/21
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