Documentation for TinyText.exf

1999-01-29
v0.1--

I made this program as my first application for the Ruputer, so if it doesn't work please tell me so I can fix it.  I tried to make it fast and small, but if there are other features that are wanted, let me know.

tinytext.exf uses a 4x6 font that is similar to standard Windows fonts including European characters.

The screen is thus 25x10.

Installation:
* put tinytext.exf in the \system\apps\ directory and edit filer.ini to use it as the default for .txt files
* put tinyfont.mmp into the \system\mmp\ directory so the program can find the font file.


Operation:
* Up- scroll up
* Down- scroll down
* Menu- Quit
* EL- light
* Enter- (nothing)
* filer/time- jump to filer.

Max file size is 16Kb.

Note:  If you don't like the way the font looks, you can edit it very easily using a graphics editor.  Just convert it to a BMP and edit the characters.  Convert it back to mmp.

The font is stored as 4x8 for each character, but only the first 6 rows are used to display the font.

I am imagining that there will be a few bugs... let me know.

Aaron J. Miller   
millera@stanford.edu


1999-02-01
v0.2--  

Added support for other font files.  Add the following line to your text file as the FIRST line of the file:

<TFNT=\system\mmp\yourfont.mmp>

The above line (with the '<' character as the first character in the file) will tell TINYTEXT to use an alternate font file instead of the default.  This way you can use multiple fonts with multiple files without having to rename your font file.

The only other font I know of so far is RUSSFONT.MMP, a Russian font created by Anton Belenki.

1999-02-03
v0.3--
Fixed FILER/TIME refresh bug.  Thanks to Anton Belenki.