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[flashjazzcat]

Following a question from a forum member, I was wondering if there is a Czech/Slovak character set for the A8? Even better, something which can be made into an 80 column (3 bit) version, if it hasn't already. This is for a font set for The Last Word. MrFish and I are rather preoccupied with the GUI and other things at present (MrFish designed - remarkably - a Polish font for LW in 80 columns).

Note: 80 column fonts for The Last Word are packed two characters per 8 bytes (side-by-side), so are 512 bytes in size. They follow the normal internal code order.

[w1k]

you mean something like this?
http://raster.infos.cz/atari/chars.htm

http://raster.infos....i/chars/all.htm

Edited by w1k, Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:00 PM.

[Fox-1 / mnx]

"Panther" has a (40 columns) font included named "Polskie" which uses about the same characters. Don't know enough about the language to know all characters are in there.

[drac030]

Quite predictably, the Panther's font "polskie" contains characters characteristic for Polish language: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź, ż. Czech and Slovak languages not only require more of them, but the set of special characters is different: only "ó" is shared with Polish. So no, I don't think this particular font can be used for Czech and Slovak texts

Edited by drac030, Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:40 PM.

[Fox-1 / mnx]

drac030, on Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:39 PM, said:

but the set of special characters is different: only "ó" is shared with Polish.

Never too old to learn.

For me it's just as with Chinese people. They all look the same to me. :-)

[Rybags]

480i would be good for such fonts... gives you 16 pixels height to play with instead of 8 within the same space.

[flashjazzcat]

w1k, on Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:00 PM, said:

you mean something like this?
http://raster.infos.cz/atari/chars.htm

http://raster.infos....i/chars/all.htm

So does CAPEK.FNT contain the necessary characters? If so, I can have a go at making an 80 column version.

Rybags, on Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:37 AM, said:

480i would be good for such fonts... gives you 16 pixels height to play with instead of 8 within the same space.

Also good for 48 lines of 4x8 text... nice! However, we'd also need 16KB for the display.

Edited by flashjazzcat, Sat Oct 29, 2011 10:46 AM.

[w1k]

http://www.podstromami.com/file.atr

Yes, or try this ATR, load VTIPY.BAS and use CTRL + a,b, c,d, etc

[flashjazzcat]

OK - thanks. I'll see what I can do with it.