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LOADFONT: Load a user-defined font to EGA/VGA. Version 1.5, Apr 16 1993

Copyright (c) 1991-1993 by Yossi Gil, P.O.Box 3148, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.



Email: [email protected]

Usage: LOADFONT [height] [range] [flags] (use standard input)

or LOADFONT [height] [rangeop(s)] [flags] fontfile (use font file)



Will load a text-mode font from stdin/fontfile to the EGA/VGA adapter memory.

LOADFONT looks for 'fontname' in the current directory and then in all

the directories specified in the FONTPATH environment variable. Multiple

directories in FONTPATH are separated by ';' chars.



'height' is the number of scan lines per character. When this parameter

is absent LOADFONT tries to make an educated guess of the height based on the

system's display adapter (1st form), the last two charcaters of the FONFILE

extension, and the size of FONTFILE (2nd form).



'range' in the form of n:m specifies that font has to be loaded for

characters n..m. The default is 0:255. Range aliases such as 'digit' are

recognized. 'rangeop' in the form of [+|-]RANGE allows a finer control on

which characters a font is to be loaded. Rangeop aliases such as 'alnum' are

recognized.



FLAGS -b Load font to bank (block) n -H Display another help screen

-h Display this help screen -? Display all help information



RANGE ALIASES

full 0:255 print 32:126 misc 128:175 heb7 96:122

ascii 0:127 graph 33:126 draw 176:223 hebibm 128:154

meta 128:255 digit 48:57 other 224:255 hebdec 224:250

ctrl 0:31 upper 65:90 greek 224:235 heb 128:154

lower 97:122 math 236:254 heb8 224:254

alpha = +lower +upper, alnum = +alpha +digit, punct = +print - alnum,

xdigit = +digit +65:70 +97:102, space = 9:13+32:32,

accent= +128:154 +160:166



EXAMPLES

loadfont 14 < italic.fnt (load an italic font of height 14)

loadfont sanserif.f16 (load a sanserif font of height 16)

loadfont 16 128:255 < rom.fnt (Let 8th-bit-set chars be like 7bit ascii)

loadfont +0:128 -punct smallcaps.f08 (Load non punct ascii chars)



SEE ALSO

withfont, dumpfont, charset, breakcpi



COPYING POLICY Copy freely for private use. Usage as part of any commercial

package is under the same restrictions as of Rhaul Dehsi ZOO program. If

you cannot obtain ZOO, you cannot use 'loadfont' commercially.