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Chapter 9 Teaching/ Selecting Fonts Optical includes a powerful font manager enabling it to recognise new fonts (typefaces). This is useful when a certain letter is continually misread, or for learning entire new fonts. The Font manager window can be opened either from the Icon bar menu, or from the toolbox or menu in a window showing a scanned image. The window contains two main regions... 9.1 Font management The writable area shows the name of the font which all editing actions currently apply to. It is possible to rename this by altering it in the writable area, and then pressing Return . 9.1.1 The Font definer menu To the right of this there is a button. Clicking on it opens a menu. The menu items above the dotted line are the names of the font definitions stored in memory. The ticked one is the one that is currently being edited (with the name in the writable area.) To select a different font, click with Select on it. Clicking with Adjust also selects the font, but also keeps the menu open. Below the dotted line, Delete Font deletes the font definition currently selected, but gives a warning first. To create a new font from scratch, open the New font submenu, and enter its name into the writable area. Then press Return , or click on what you have typed to register it. This font should then appear with the other fonts in the menu. It is also automatically selected. Selecting Load defaults re-loads the font definitions which are stored inside Optical. The rest of section 9.1.1 does not apply to the demonstration version because it is not possible to save font definitions... Save defaults saves the current font definitions inside Optical, so that they are loaded when it starts up in future. Font definitions can be saved using the standard RISC OS procedures by dragging the icon from the Save fonts... submenu to a Filer window. 9.1.2 Loading an Optical font file To load a font file, double-click on it in a Filer window, or drag it to Optical on the icon bar, or to the Font manager window. If there are already font definitions in memory, then you will be asked whether you would like the fonts to merge with the current ones or replace them. Double-clicking on an Optical font file when Optical is not loaded starts up Optical with that font file instead of the default one. (The !OptclPro application has to have been seen by the Filer for this to work.) 9.1.3 Defined characters Defined characters... opens a window displaying all the characters defined in the currently selected font. Clicking on the characters enter them into the writable area next to the Delete >