mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/19/89)
Just curious: Does anyone know if Windows 3.0 is going to have a proportional system font? If not, then, believe it or not, I have managed to fool Windows 2.11 into using a proportional font as the system font! The results are much better, especially letters like M and W, which appear like black blocks when MS-DOS exec prints then in bold (for the directories, etc). So far, I have only developed the font for VGA/Super VGA. Anyone interested in trying it out? Or perhaps I am all excited about "discovering" the oldest trick in the book. Milan mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu .
kyler@pyr.gatech.EDU (J. Kyle Rogers) (10/21/89)
In article <246400029@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Just curious: > >Does anyone know if Windows 3.0 is going to have a proportional system font? >[...] >Milan >mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu I think I remember hearing that Windows 3.0 would have a proportional system font -- any beta testers out there who can comment? I remember when I spent at summer with IBM while they were developing the early releases of Presentation Manager for OS/2. After many internal releases with a fixed system font, the releases started having a proportional font, wreaking havock with the cosmetics of many programs designed for PM by programmers unaware of the coming change. Those programs had a very attractive font, but nothing would line up correctly! | krogers -- J. Kyle Rogers -- P.O. Box 31467 | | Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 | |uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!kyler| |ARPA: kyler@pyr.gatech.edu |