rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) (06/17/88)
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In article <680@crcmar.crc.uucp> jaf@crcmar.crc.uucp (Jonathan Fischer) writes:
-> Speaking of the character set, can someone at Atari tell us why the
->hebraic (sp?) characters where chosen (in the upper half of the charset)? I
->can't believe that the number of people who actually use these characters
->approaches anywhere NEAR even 1% of the total number of ST owners (counter
->examples, anyone?). Why not use the same graphics characters as the IBM?
->Sometimes it's useful to be able to include nice charts & such in a text file
->using these characters. In fact, forget about 'sometimes' -- it's quite
->FREQUENTLY useful to do so.
good point. this seems awfully dumb, but what else is new?
-> *Sigh*
don't fret, just get a font editor and change those suckers! it's pretty
simple to find the memory-bound font and edit/replace it with your own. key
question would be how this affects stuff going to the printer. i've never
tried actually printing one of those chars on say an epson. bitmap stuff
should be fine.
-bill