[Coco] Font editor for OS9/NitrOS-9 Level 2?

[Bill Pierce]

 Kelly, you probably already know, but OS9 uses control sequences to produce the characters above 127.
What you're trying to do is pretty easy once you have a font editor, which I saw you found (I have several).
I have done the very same thing and created fonts with the RSDOS ascii graphics characters to use in Basic09 programs.
Some of the font editors do not allow editing above 127 so you have to find one that will. Changing the chars above 127 (and below 32) is the same way the ANSI font set was done for the font set used in ANSI compatable Com programs in OS9 to use the ANSI graphics chars.
Most of the empty and repeated chars in the current sets are actually used by MultiVue to create the fancy borders and scroll bars, so if you change your fonts, MultiVue will look strange :-)
There are also several sets of alternate fonts on RTSI that have some interesting looking fonts.
Some where on my old disks I have about 30 font sets I created back in the 80s-90s, but those disks are inaccessable for now.

 


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