[Cuis] Fixed-Width Font

[Dan Norton]

On 10 Jul 2015 at 16:51, Ken.Dickey wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:05:50 -0400
> "Dan Norton" <dnorton at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the only font now is DejaVu and it's a bitmap font. I found
> some fixed bitmap fonts 
> > among the true types at:
> > 
> > http://www.lowing.org/fonts/
> > 
> > Adding a sublcass to AbstractFont to load one of these might be
> doable near-term until 
> > Morphic 3 comes along. Porting TrueType from Squeak has a lot of
> drag.
> 
> My Cuis-Smalltalk-Unicode package subclasses AbstractFont and
> provides fixed width characters.
> 
> See class #UniForms 
> 
> Unicode is kinda big, memory wise.  I suspect one should be able to
> take the ASCII subset of the Unicode glyphs and make a strike font
> -- or just do what I did for Unicode, but just use the ASCII
> subset.
> 
> FYI,
> -KenD

That is awesome, Ken.

 - Dan