lisa@phs.UUCP (Jeffrey William Gillette) (05/06/85)
[] Through the kindness of the humanities computing project here at Duke, I have been authorized to offer our foreign alphabet programs to any interested party. At the present these include: - Makefont - a character generation utility that allows a user to design custom fonts. - PC-Write, Bob Wallace's "shareware" word processor which I have modified slightly to handle nonstandard alphabets. - Loadfont - a small utility that switches between default and custom fonts. - Printfont - a utility to print text in foreign alphabets on the IBM graphics printer (available "Real Soon Now"). - More goodies to come throughout the summer, both for the PC and for the Victor 9000. The only hitch is that these programs all require the Enhanced Graphics Adapter. For the time being we want to work in text mode instead of graphics mode. This gives our work maximum compatibility with existing applications, and preserves a reasonable speed. The EGA is the only PC graphics card, of which I am aware, that provides a completely user- definable character generator in text mode (if anyone knows of other graphics cards that do this, please tell me). I will be happy to mail further information to anyone interested. To receive these programs, please send me a blank diskette and a stamped self-addressed mailer, or $10 to cover diskette and postage. Jeffrey William Gillette uucp: ...!duke!phs!lisa The Divinity School bitnet: dybbuk@tucc Duke University Durham, NC 27706