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Float/!Float/HackerInfo
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | Float/!Float/HackerInfo |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 11DC bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
It would have been nice to have given the new encoding file a new name, like LatinFloat or something. Unfortunately this is not straightforward at all - most, if not all, software assumes that you want the Latin1 encoding. *Country only affects the System font and keyboard, not the encoding of the outline fonts. *Alphabet is the same except that the keyboard is not affected. Of the countries available under RISC OS 3, only Esperanto, Russian and Greek should use a different encoding. The Acorn outline fonts don't have the characters for Russian or Greek, so it's not surprising that there is no attempt to change encoding for them. The System font changes to Russian, Greek or Esperanto beautifully though. This may be down to the Territory manager; I don't know. I'm not aware of territory managers having been written for any country that would use a different encoding - yet the Latin2, Latin3 and Latin4 encodings are there in the ROM. Search as I might in the PRMs, I've found no way to select a different public encoding. It appears that you could write a new application that could render fonts using other encodings, but short of intercepting the calls to render fonts and re-issuing them with a different choice of encoding, there doesn't seem to be any way of getting existing applications to render using anything but Latin1. Even the interception technique might not give you access to encodings with names new to the system. So what I've done is call my new encoding Latin1. Horrible. You then have to persuade the Font Manager to use the alternative encoding, without eliminating the ROM font directory from Font$Path (because you still want the ROM fonts themselves, even though you don't want the ROM encodings). Having done that, you still have to get rid of the copy of the encoding in the font cache - again, there doesn't seem to be any general way to do that without dumping the whole cache. Font_UnCacheFile, which looks as though it could be the appropriate SWI, appears to be unable to get at the encoding files. In FontManager 3.29 and 3.33, merely minimizing the cache suffices, which is easily done without upsetting other applications; but in earlier versions, it has to be flushed completely. You then have to force all applications to re-apply for their font handles, which a no-change mode change seems to do, otherwise any application using fonts is liable to generate errors trying to access fonts using handles that the FontManager has lost. You can't get them back with the previous mapping, which is arbitrary, except by saving and reloading the font cache, which would reinstate the cached encoding anyway. The font flushing technique is a bit ham-fisted, but no wholly legal technique achieves the necessary result, as far as I can work out. This method works with at least versions 3.07, 3.28, 3.29 and 3.33 of the Font Manager - if anyone comes across versions of the FM it doesn't work with, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know (or for that matter, other versions it _does_ work with). XenoPhilia Fonts aren't language fonts (sic) - they don't use encodings at all: their filenames are Outlines and Intmetrics rather than Outlines0 and Intmetric0, and they only have characters &20 - &FF. This means they don't need you to flush the font cache, and the XenoPhilia version of !Float only has to change the keyboard and System font and provide the positioning function. Much tidier. It also means I can provide the Lappish eng and Dutch ij ligature. If any other producer of fonts wants to take advantage of !Float I'd be happy to provide suitable versions for a modest fee. Contact me. All versions can be merged without problems for users of fonts from multiple sources. Third party fonts could be either: ISO/IEC 6937 only fonts (like XenoPhilia fonts), or normal 'language' fonts for dual use, but requiring the slightly less application-friendly version of !Float as supplied here. The latter would obviate any editing for existing 'language' fonts, assuming all the necessary characters existed in the correct locations, but would prevent the provision of the additional characters. Relatively small edits would allow the compromise positioning of floating accents in Draw - merely adjusting the widths of the accents to zero. Ideally, their positions should be adjusted to optimum compromises over the letters to which they are most often attached; but this would necessitate editing all their occurences as character inclusions! Copyright Clive K Semmens 1996 csemmens@physoc.org or c/o Acorn User
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