Re: HELP a newbie out.........
From Eli the Bearded <*...@qz.little-neck.ny.us>
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· 6 Jun 2001 20:17 · View full thread
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In alt.ascii-art, MiKe� <p�che...@la.toile> wrote: > > Elijah > > won't go into the "charset" vs "character sets" vs "font", etc, thing here > Great thing about the Mac - I can add key features that allow me to > access all character values up to "FFh" (255d) and with either the Nothing special about a Mac there. But why limit yourself to one-byte character systems? UCS-4 should have enough space for any glyphs you can imagine in the unused spaces, while leaving all the glyphs people have ever used untouched. > Apple� resource editor or a font editing program I can design my own > "picture" fonts. With ResEd I can put them into my system file. That > allows me to print a better bold, italic, etc. type version than the > printing software will print. Why use ResEdit? Make the font, and install it as you would any other font. Or did you mean ResEdit to make the font? I thought it could only do bitmap fonts, and those won't print nice. > Of course, 0 - 31 and 127 are as you noted - "reserved for system use". > Designing your own keyboard layout also allows easy encryption. The > "key" is the altered keyboard layout. I've remapped the keyboard on other OSs besides Macs. ObAscii: `MMMMMMMMb dMMP "MMMMMMMM. dMMM `MMMMMMMMb dMMP `MMMMMMMM. dMM' `MMMMMMMMb MMM' TMMMMMMMM. dMMP `MMMMMMMMb MMM "MMMMMMP MMM' `MMMM',MMM ,dMM',MMMMM dMMP dMMMMMMMb .MMM TMMMMMMMM. .MMM' `MMMMMMMMb dMM' `MMMMMMMM. ,dMM' `EMMMMMMMb dMM' TMMMMMMMM MMM `BMMMMMMMb """ """"""""" Elijah ------ currently working with a slightly broken keymap in X11
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