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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: fonts less than 8 pixels wide?
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Date: 3 Jul 88 21:01:31 GMT
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In article <384@vedge.UUCP| 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
|I'd like to do is try to get more than 80 columns across a line (without
|resorting to expansions of screens) and I thought a smaller font would
|do it.  Any software out there that won't work with fonts smaller
|than 8 across?  

A-Talk Plus came (and A-Talk III will come) with a font that would give you
128 chars/line (and 132 with overscan).  Even more chars/line with an even 
smaller font to simulate the smaller Tek font.  I have seen also a few small
fonts on Public networks.

|After I create this font with 'fed', how do I tell the
|system to use this as the default font?

There is a program called Setfont, which can be found everywhere (public
nets and fish disks).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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