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Re: Jiri - private mail to you bounced...

• Posted by JEFF ZEITLIN <jeff.zeitlin at EXECNET.COM> Jun 15, 1997
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Jiri - your site doesn't appear to be findable.  Below is the
 reply to your note to me; do you have an address that works?

M::>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
::>550 J.BABOR at GNS.CRI.NZ... Host unknown (Name server: mail1.digex.net.: no
 da
ta
 ::>known)

M::>   ----- Original message follows -----


M::>J::>No, Jeff, the word he is looking for is not "jealous", it is "envious".
 ::> ::>Pedantic, I
 ::> ::>know... Jiri

M::> Yeah, well...

M::> Incidentally, a couple of ideas for your font stuff:

M::> 1.     Rather than using global variables and requiring the
 ::> user to set them, things like x/y position and angle should be
 ::> parameters to the the procedures that use them.  This will
 ::> prevent accidental collision with variables of the same name
 ::> used by the user's program or by other included files.
 ::> Alternatively (though parameterization is to be preferred),
 ::> declaring the variables to be file scope (i.e., not global),
 ::> and providing procedures like set_angle() and set_position() to
 ::> set them would guard against the problem.

M::> 2.     In the font editor, there should be provisions for
 ::> drawing lines and blocks, especially at larger sizes, rather
 ::> than having to turn on each pixel individually.

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Jeff Zeitlin                                      jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com
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