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From: "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: New fonts for RISC OS, comments welcome
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In article <9235faf5-b4e7-4ce3-96e5-43bb5495e041@googlegroups.com>,
   Michael J. Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, September 14, 2012 6:24:22 AM UTC-4, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

> > So would installing the RO5 Fontmanger on this 4.39 sort things? And
> > is it
> > 
> > available separately from RO5?
> > 

> It's available from the RISC OS Open website:
> https://www.riscosopen.org/content/downloads/module-zipfiles

> The files to get are Fonts (version 3.66) and ROMFonts (0.75) This info
> comes from an article on Icon Bar
> (http://www.iconbar.com/articles/Getting_Unicode_Working_With_RISC_OS_4_and_6/index1267.html)
> and seems to work for folks, so I think I'll post this information and a
> link on the front page for my fonts. I may also add the info to a readme
> file for people who obtain my conversions from sources other than my
> site.

Thanks, Mike. Just for information, I tried dropping it into both DrFonty
and FontEd, and both complain about there being more than 255 characters.
Of course I don't understand the implications of this. ;-)

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