EVERHART%ARISIA@ulowell.UUCP (11/22/86)
The raytraced images are on various BBSs with executables of Display. They DO display properly; I suspect there must be something wrong either with the copies elmgate!... had or with the display program he used. Jon Sherling here has written a save and display routine that saves the images as HAM and also allows them to be displayed fast. The DISPLAY program puts them up quite slowly. I have used it to display DEC, Brick, Glass, etc. with success however. On another matter: I grabbed the NEWFONT program and have been twiddling with varying fonts on Amiga using 1.2 beta 10 and the font editor to tweak the "erics.font" file. I recommend the newfont program highly to all. It opens a new font and clobbers the name in Topaz and a couple lists so subsequent opens for Topaz get the new font. You lose a tiny bit of memory and can't use the rom Topaz font (though you CAN get ibmfont and effectively have Topaz back). But you can have a much clearer font than the default on a 1080. I use interlace. By a bit of hackery I have made up a 7 wide fixed font and a proportional font. Either of them is highly readable even on a 1080 monitor in interlace mode. Changing your default font to a proportional one does mess up column alignment for DIR and other utilities, but no visits from Mr. Guru result. Now that I can edit in whatever font I like using Micro Emacs, is there anyone who knows of an editor or word processor for Amiga that'll let me do multiple fonts in one document? Glenn Everhart 609 486 6328 Everhart%Arisia@Rca.com
sdl@linus.UUCP (11/22/86)
> Now that I can edit in whatever font I like using Micro Emacs, is > there anyone who knows of an editor or word processor for Amiga that'll > let me do multiple fonts in one document? The only one I know of is ProWrite (New Horizons). It also lets you use different colors for different fonts. Unfortunately, ProWrite won't be shipping before January 1987. The other alternatives are: a) Text formatters: TeX is available for the Amiga (I forget from whom); it allows multiple fonts. b) Desktop publishing systems: Publisher 1000 (Brown Wagh Publishing) should be shipping shortly. Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 Fone: (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mitre-bedford UUCP: ...{cbosgd,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,security,utzoo}!linus!sdl
conte@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (11/26/86)
/* Written 11:08 am Nov 22, 1986 by sdl@linus.UUCP in uicsrd:comp.sys.amiga */ /* ---------- "Raytraced images" ---------- */ >> Now that I can edit in whatever font I like using Micro Emacs, is >> there anyone who knows of an editor or word processor for Amiga that'll >> let me do multiple fonts in one document? > > a) Text formatters: TeX is available for the Amiga (I forget from > whom); it allows multiple fonts. Woah, I didn't know about this. Does anyone know where this Amiga TeX is available from? Thanks, Tom uucp: {ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!uicsrd!conte arpanet: conte%uicsrd@a.cs.uiuc.edu or conte@huey.udel.edu csnet: conte%uicsrd@uiuc.csnet bitnet: conte@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu