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My current late-night project is producing a Cyrillic font for the ST
(since I can't read my own handwriting in cyrillic, and I'm tired of getting
my russian homeworks back covered in red ink :-)

Since I'm poor :-) this has to all be done on freely available tools.

I've used GemFed to make up a cyrillic GDOS font based on 12-point Athens,
and fortuitously discovered that the copy of Write On which I got on an
ST Format Cover disk understands .FNT files. But I need more details:

By what ratio should I rescale the font for it to come out correctly on
a 9-pin printer (an Citizen to be exact, but it's Epson-complete)?
I undestand that I'll have to do some tweaking after that, but right now
I can't get the basic rescaling right.

What are WO's other <fontname>.* files for? I'm guessing that there's a
"this font in italics" one, and (?) a proportional widths file, etc, etc.
Without adequate documentation I can't add these for my font.

How does he keyboard remapping file work? I've found the thing, but I don't
feel confident enough to fiddle unduly. It would be nice to have a couple
of key maps, say one for the real russian keyboard and one for yazerty...

I guess a lot of this stuff is in some FAQ somewhere.

Please send replies to me and I'll summarise.

Needless to say, I'll post the final font.

Thanks in advance.


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