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TXF Font Pack.
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Most of these fonts were created from the X-windows
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fonts that are distributed with Xfree86. The
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exceptions are Sorority, Curlfont, Default and
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Haeberli which came from Mark Kilgards' "texfont"
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distribution.
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I used Mark's program called 'gentexfont' to convert
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X fonts into '.txf' format - which can be read into
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the PLIB FNT component.
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Large bold-faced fonts seem to work best. There
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is little point in converting the italic versions
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of these fonts since FNT can do a reasonable job
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of italicising them on-the-fly.
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Using large fonts gives them the best chance of
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scaling them without undue aliasing either in
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pixel or texel space. These fonts all fit pretty
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well into 256x256 maps - using smaller maps would
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require you to go for smaller font sizes - larger
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maps would not fit into 3Dfx and similar hardware.
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Medium and fine fonts look pretty terrible when scaled,
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I have omitted all the fine fonts and some of the
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worst medium fonts from the set that come with Xfree86.
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You can preview these using the fnt_test program,
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or use them from within other programs that use
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Mark's TXF format.
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