Subj : Curiosity - Fonts
To   : Digital Man
From : DesotoFireflite
Date : Fri Feb 04 2022 17:54:10

  Re: Curiosity - Fonts
  By: Digital Man to DesotoFireflite on Fri Feb 04 2022 12:28 pm

 >> Out of curosity, is there a way to make a font show differenty on one
 >> menu, but not affect the rest. I notice the word "Vertrauen" on your
 >> answer.msg file shows up differently than any other menu or screen.

 DM> Hey, somebody noticed! :-)

LMFAO, yeah, I've noticed for some time, but just recently had time to work on the system. Word of advice, don't ever get behind, it's hell to catch up :)

 >> I didn't see
 >> anything in the font.ini file for just one menu. I feel I understand
 >> the ini file, and how it works for the 16,14,8 pt text, and which
 >> atribute controls what font you want for Normal, Bright, Blinking, and
 >> blinking Bright. Is there a control code that I don't see to change
 >> one word in one menu. Just curious how you did that. Thanks in advance

 DM> To make that "one word in one menu" different, I:
 DM> 1. set blink=gothical in the [default:16] section of my fonts.ini
 DM> 2. Use the EXEC @-code to load loadfont.js in my text/banner*.msg file
 DM> 3. Used the Ctrl-Af code to select that font for that one word. I also use
 DM> the WIDE @-code, so that one word will appear double-wide for UTF-8
 DM> terminals. 

 DM> You could copy loadfonts.js to your mods directory (and maybe rename it)
 DM> and modify it to load a different section from fonts.ini (not necessarily
 DM> "default", as is hard-coded in loadfonts.js) and then that "one menu"
 DM> could use the EXEC @-code to load that font section and other menus could
 DM> load different fonts (if that's what you're looking for).

 DM> I *think* that if you load a font while there's text on the screen, it'll
 DM> apply to the text already on the screen (iirc, but I could be wrong), so
 DM> you probably can't load a different (say, "default") font section *after*
 DM> your "one menu" is displayed and get the results you want. But you could
 DM> experiment with that idea.

OK, gotcha, I saw some of this in wiki, but you put it togeather wher it made some sense to me. I think I have enough no to make it happen. Thanks so much for the help. 

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