--=====================_946496777==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Hi!
I refactored and (IMHO) improved the FontSet mechanism to store also existing TextStyles and StrikeFonts into classes. I also created some new fonts for Squeak. But because I used Microsoft TrueType fonts as a source, I'm not really sure whether I'm allowed to publish this work or not.
All I can say that Squeak looks really nice with Tahoma or Georgia (one of my favorites) as default font. Tahoma is a very clean computer-display-optimized font which is part of the Microsoft Office (I think). Georgia is one of Microsoft's free web fonts. I also converted Trebuchet MS (another free web font) which looks nearly as nice as Tahoma but has larger ascents and descents. See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ for more details about these and other fonts.
As I understand Microsoft's licence, it would be okay if Squeak would be able to read in the unmodified fonts - displaying them in any way that doesn't matter then. Embedding the fonts into documents is okay they say. However I created something one could perhaps call a derived work - even if I'd say I embedded just a view of these fonts :-)
Therefore, I added only a freeware font called "Bookworm" which I found, modified and extended some time agao and for which I now also created the special ^ and _ characters. It's only usuable for large headlines I'm afraid because it looks very awful in Squeak without anti-aliasing in smaller sizes.
From the changeset:
Refactored and reworked FontSet stuff. Additional to the BitFont converter (which hopefully still works) you can now store complete TextStyles into FontSet classes using
FontSet convertTextStyleNamed: 'Bookworm'
As already implemented, you can then use
FontSetBookworm installAsTextStyle
to (re)install that font family again.
The mechanism requires a strike font name consisting of 'family name' 'pointSize' ['B' and/or 'I'] where [ ] means that this part is optionally. The pointSize argument must be a two-digit number, so use '08' for 8pt fonts.
Changes in detail: * The FontSet class is now a simple Object-subclass and not a subclass of StrikeFont anymore. * FontSets are stored into the 'Graphics-Fonts' category. * Created fonts are prefixed with 'FontSet' to reduce the probability of name clashes.
bye --=====================_946496777==_ Content-Type: text/plain; name="FontSetStuff.zip" ; x-mac-type="705A4950" ; x-mac-creator="705A4950" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FontSetStuff.zip" Content-Transfer-Encoding: imap_stub
0,2731,2,9798,0,
--=====================_946496777==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-- Stefan Matthias Aust // Bevor wir fallen, fallen wir lieber auf. --=====================_946496777==_--