original ST-80 fonts

Wolfgang Helbig helbig at lehre.ba-stuttgart.de
Thu Mar 30 07:32:00 UTC 2006


Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:

> I'm a bit confused by your message.
Sorry.
> The fonts are *in* the image, so they are definitely not lost forever.
Yes, but I do not have an image running ST80 sources. This is the target
of my little project.
>And what do you mean by the *.st files?
Sorry, typing error. I meant *.sf files. Like in PaloAlto.sf2.
> I am guessing that you are getting the source code to run on the Squeak VM,
exactly
> and that you want .st files that would create the fonts in Squeak.  Is that right?
I fact, .sf files, because I thought that StrikeFonts where distributed
as .sf files. But I learned, that this is not so.
> 
> I have that image running in Squeak (see attached image),
Fantastic! This is just what I am trying to achieve: ST80 classes
running in a Squeak image!

> but I see no fileOut code for StrikeFont.  I suppose we could copy over
> the fileOut code from Squeak, get it to run in my St80, and fileOut
> all the fonts in DefaultTextStyle.  Is this what you want?
Exactly!

But what I really want by now is your image :-) Can you distribute it?
Or are there legal reasons
not to?

Thanks a lot for your kind reply!

Greetings
Wolfgang



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