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System font editor?

From	Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk>
Subject	System font editor?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date	2018-03-09 15:30 +0000
Message-ID	<56d6233ffbjcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> (permalink)
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Is there still a system font editor program of some kind that I could use
on a modern RO machine (ARMX6) to alter the non-WIMP system font
characters?

Back in the dark days pre 1990-ish I wrote a diy 'printing' program to let
me include various maths and symbols into documents written using PipeDream
(or View!). I've long since changed to !TechWriter. But I have many old
'legacy' files that used the old method.

This used various tricks, but the one relevant here is that it redefined
the shapes for 'top bit set' system font characters to be things like
selected greek chars, special symbols like a 'z' with a 'hat' symbol, etc,
etc.

I've found an old *partial* example of the command program that loaded some
of the new definitions, but not all of them. This still actually works. So
I can now see some old files and things like integral signs show up. but
other chars aren't in this defining file so I need to add them.

Jim

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System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-09 15:30 +0000
  Re: System font editor? Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 00:54 +0000
    Re: System font editor? Rick Murray <Rick@bogus.email.address> - 2018-03-10 17:32 +0100
      Re: System font editor? Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2018-03-10 22:52 +0000
      Re: System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-11 10:04 +0000
  Re: System font editor? svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2018-03-12 04:54 -0700
    Re: System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-12 15:01 +0000
  Re: System font editor? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-03-12 19:54 +0000
    Re: System font editor? "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-03-12 20:03 +0000
      Re: System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-13 10:08 +0000
    Re: System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-13 10:04 +0000
      Re: System font editor? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-03-13 20:05 +0000
        Re: System font editor? Jim Lesurf <jcgl@audiomisc.co.uk> - 2018-03-14 10:26 +0000

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