bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu (11/30/90)
How does one get a 100 or 120 column display with a VGA monitor (standard plain VGA card and monitor) using various application programs? Do I need to get an alternate font set somewhere, or is there some trick to doing it. mike benedik university of houston benedik@uh.edu
leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson) (12/02/90)
bchs1b@jetson.uh.edu writes: >How does one get a 100 or 120 column display with a VGA monitor (standard >plain VGA card and monitor) using various application programs? Do I need >to get an alternate font set somewhere, or is there some trick to doing >it. Well, since a *standard* VGA text screen is only 720 pixels across, and you want at least 1 pixel of "space" between characters, that leaves 5 pixels for the width of the character. *maybe* you could do it with special fonts, but it would be *ugly*. My advice is to buy a VGA card that supports a 132 column text mode! -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com
mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) (12/04/90)
In trying to get screen approximately 120 characters wide, if one used proportional screen fonts, not all the letters would have to be 5 pixels wide. -- Michael Volow, Psychiatry, Durham VA Med Center, Durham NC 27712 919 286 0411 Ext 6933 mvolo@ecsvax.edu
leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson) (12/07/90)
mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes: >In trying to get screen approximately 120 characters wide, if one used >proportional screen fonts, not all the letters would have to be 5 >pixels wide. Yes, but since an *awful* lot of wide material is in the form of columnar data, this solution is less than useful. And it's not the sort of thing that can be handled without a *big* driver. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.uucp personal: CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com business: CIS: [76376,1107] 76376.1107@compuserve.com