                               V-EDIT vers. 1.40

MEDIUM COLOR OUTLINE FONT SET


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1,7,6,1                   UNDERSTANDING V-EDIT FONT FILES
01Ŀ
02 Ŀ 
03                   1. First line of Font file is your description.
04   
05                  2. This line must be 40 characters, including
06                   spaces between words, or less. Any character
                             beyond 40 is truncated, when read.

1                        3. Each key assignment is preceded by the ANSI
1,4,6,1                      character "" CHR$ (168).
01 Ŀ
02                    4. The next line under the key assignment is the
03                       font string.
04  
05                     INTERNAL USE, FONT WIDTH, FONT HEIGHT, KERNING
06 
                             Internal use:  Should always be 1
                             Font width:    Width of max. Span of actual 
                                            character
                             Font height:   Height of actual character
                           Kerning:       Space to move after printing 
1,10,7,-2                                   to screen space between characters
                               

                 Note:  Kerning can be a negative value if you
                        wish to print a character, then return
                        to a cursor position before the font
                        width.

                        As in the case of a space. The Font
                        width and height reflect the largest
                        values from within the Font set, but
                        because the average Font width is 8,
                        we set the kerning to -2.


End              5. ""  represents a "space" CHR$ (32).
                    Leave N blank lines under the Font string line,
                    where N is the Font height.

                 6. It's a good idea to mark the end of your Font
                    file, such that it doesn't ever get truncated.
                    Especially if your space character is the last
                    Font in your file.

7.  For colored Fonts, we use the ANSI symbol "" CHR$ (247), and the PCB code     
    format. See readme.1St for more on PCB codes & usage. The reason we don't
    use the "@ X" prefix is to prevent V-EDIT from formating the Font file to
    a PCB file, ie: so it reads as an ASCII text file.

8.  The Font will utilize the last color code found to draw the next character
    in other words, if your Font is made up of 50 diferent characters, each
    could be a "different" color, and you would have 50 color codes.

9.  Color codes will not register as spaces.
          Therefore:

          01 Ŀ              01 01Ŀ
          02               0202  
          03               0303  
          04                04 04 
          05                05 05  
          06               06 06


          These two Fonts are equivalent.

10.  Color codes of one Font will not affect the color or non-color of 
     another from within the same set. If a Font is not colored, it's
     color can be changed from within V-EDIT, pending current Fg & Bg
     attributes. Colored fonts can not be changed from within V-EDIT.

     Note: you can have just one colored Font in an entire set, or
        some, or all, or none. The choice is yours.

11. Make sure your entire Font is left justified, as the reader will
    read whatever is specified in the Font string starting in the first
    column and row postion in the next line after the Font string.

12. Fonts can be as small as one character, "make your own extended set"
    or as large as 23 rows, 80 columns. "Assign repetative screens to keys."

13. Make sure your Font file is named: "FMNFONT.NNN" where "NNN" is a number
    between "001" and "999"  the Font number in the V-EDIT font utility
    does not reflect the Font file number, only the number of Fonts, available
    and the order as DOS found them. The main purpose of this number is to
    show the current Fg & Bg attributes.



    Well, there you go!  We tried to make our Font structure easy and quickly
    manageable, utilizing simple color structures, and giving you, the user
    the most options as possible.

    We include 7 Font sets of basic, colored, symbol, and screen images. Use
    what you want, and/or modify as you please.  The 8th set are screens
    showing or advertising the work of others.




    See ya,

           Wizard.........
