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From: bilbo@pnet02.cts.com (Bill Daggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fonts less than 8 pixels wide?
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Date: 4 Jul 88 20:20:18 GMT
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lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>Has anyone experimented with fonts less than 8 pixels wide.  ie. how
>about a 5x7 font in a 6x8 box (a popular size in old terminals).  What
>David Lai (vedge!lai@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu || ...watmath!onfcanim!vedge!lai)

Online! supports a number of alternate fonts.  I just switched to 5 x 8 to see
what your message looked like - I had never tried this.  Well...  It is
difficult but not impossible to read.  Do you want to do this so you can
display 132 columns?  I can't recommend it but what do I know...?

Bill

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