1. font.e
Warning: the following is a blatant commercial - we have not seen many
of those since the Reverend Packard left us for the falling rouble...
(Hello, Michael! But only if you are lucky enough to have a phone
connection and are watching this space from one of those tiny Moscow
apartments, on an obsolete laptop, provided by the local mafia at a
truly ridiculous price...)
I just finished, more or less, a major update of my font system and
Robert was kind enough to put it on his Recent Contributions page.
I am sorry it has taken me so long - a lot of you were not even re-born
as Euphorians when I originally promised it!
Below is a short extract from the readme file, summarizing the main
features and improvements. Also, please, make sure you try my little
demo/tutorial hiding in font.ex. It is not quite complete yet, but I
hope you will enjoy it anyway - and possibly get hooked... jiri
much faster writes, especially with plain color fore/backgrounds
foreground texturing option
8x16 ROM char set as default, automatically available as default
font attributes: bold, shadow, italic & underline
images function - fast generation of rectangular text images
vertical text
global routines only: *no* global variables any more
each font has its own private copy of size dependant parameters
'on-the-fly' change of foreground color and/or attributes
multi-line support (imbedded new line characters)
text justification: left, right and centre
new/changed defaults
prompt function (formerly fgets) with additional width parameter,
scroll, xor cursor and much better editing facilities
