Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!minow From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Printing small characters. Message-ID: <7@decvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 22:21:48 EST Article-I.D.: decvax.7 Posted: Tue Jan 13 22:21:48 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Jan-87 19:06:40 EST References: <1483@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) Organization: Ultrix Eng. Group - Merrimack, NH Lines: 17 In article <1483@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> rgoodman@cit-vax.UUCP (Ron Carl Goodman) asks how to access the 6x6 font used in icons. I would suspect that you could use the vst_font() call to select the font (sorry, I don't know its index), and then v_gtext() to output text. I haven't tried this, though. If I did, I would try fonts 1, 2, 3 to see if any do anything interesting. What you *can't* do is to "convince" the bios that you are using the 6x6 font with low-level text output (Cconws()). The bit banger that puts the font characters into the screen area "knows" that fonts are 8 bits wide. A week or so ago, I posted code that will force the bios to use a home-made font as the "system" font. See that posting for the gory details. Martin Minow decvax!minow