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Dragonchampion

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Which font options do I have?
« on: November 13, 2010, 02:00:40 am »
I am looking for a good truetype font to use, but are there are special needs? Like some fonts do not have the special characters?
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Dragonchampion

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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2010, 09:44:14 am »
Any ideas anyone? I am looking for a font and need to know what the requirements are.  ;D
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2010, 07:20:14 am »
I, too, would like to know this.  It's annoying not being able to distinguish genders, masterwork items, etc.
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2010, 12:18:38 pm »
Bump. - I would also very much like to know if anyone have found a perfect truetype font.
I.e. one that contains all needed characters for DF.
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2010, 02:49:25 pm »
Pretty much all default Windows TrueType fonts are supposed to have the full set (key term "supposed to").  Arial Narrow does according to Character Map, but I can't figure out how to get DF to use that instead of whatever TrueType font it is using.
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2010, 04:21:57 pm »
To change what font DF uses for TrueType, copy the font file into the 'art' folder in DF, then delete the "font" TrueType file, and rename the font you want to use instead as "font".
Make sure you do have TrueType turned on in the init file.
Worked for me :)

EDIT: As far as I know though, none of the standard TrueType fonts (at least not the ones on Windows XP) are fully charactered for use in DF though. Bummer.
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2010, 10:28:21 pm »
Quote from: doctorspoof on November 24, 2010, 04:21:57 pm
EDIT: As far as I know though, none of the standard TrueType fonts (at least not the ones on Windows XP) are fully charactered for use in DF though. Bummer.

Since all (not talking wingdings here) truetype fonts are supposed to share the same character map, its a matter of coding DF expect that map. A simple character code translation function should be run for all true type related printing. The good news is that braughn (sp?) could theoretically do this, or ideally add a mapping file we all could edit.

I forget if standard windows fonts are ISO Latin-1 encoded or Unicode. I would imagine the latter.
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Re: Which font options do I have?
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2010, 10:40:20 pm »
What's this business about a map? Is it some additional file?
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