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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>,
        Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com,
        salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 14:22:43 +0000
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Subject: Re: Fonts in Allegro
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Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> > > JH writes:
> > > >I was just wondering how to create font files which are to be used with
> > > >Allegro 2.2, please e-mail me if you know how,
> > > 
> > > There are lots of GRX format .FNT files in the libgrx distribution. 
> > Please don't get me wrong Shawn I'll just point a detail here:
> > 
> > That's only an opinion, and I really like the bitmaped fonts of Allegro, but we 
> > need some way to support proportional packed fonts (1 bit per pixel).
> 
> 
> I would like to suggest the computer modern roman fonts that come in 
> packed (.pk####) format. The format and the packing algorithm are simple 
> and I would be happy to give you c functions that I am writing for my dvi 
> viewer. Of course I have not used the Allegro fonts so I do not 
> understand very well the issues involved. But if you are looking for 
> proportional bitmapped fonts that come packed, cmr are one of the best. 

I appreciate your effort  Gurunandan but I'm affraid the topic is a little more 
complex. As I told before I made a converter from the GRX fonts (bit packed 
ones) to Allegro so I know how to decode them. The problem is that for Allegro 
we need a lot of special features like clipping. That isn't too hard to make 
but takes a lot of time to write/optimize/test. I personally don't have the 
time for it perhaps somebody in the group have it.
I agree that CMR fonts are very good ones, if I remmember well they are the 
defaults in TeX and my manuals looks great when I use TeX.

Greetings, SET
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