Re: [StrongED] Fonts

[Fred Graute <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>]

In message <F6015796-E03F-40E5-9EBE-786A01B7BBD9@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
          David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2011, at 13:33, Fred Graute wrote:
>
> > In message <70c0df3b52.pittdj+@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >          David Pitt <pittdj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> In message <3c0bce3b52.fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>  Fred Graute <fjgraute@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks, that's useful to know. There are however no files typed &1BD in
> >>> my copy of ZapFonts. It's pretty old though (1.03, 04-Nov-00) so maybe
> >>> later versions do have &1BD files. Where did you get yours?
> >>
> >> ZapFonts on all of my machines are &1BD, as they also are in the
> >> latest ARMv7 download :-
> >>
> >> http://www.tankstage.co.uk/Software/
> >
> > Thanks David. It's a bit strange though as it's the same version that I
> > have but with all font files typed &1BD. There's no indication of why
> > this is and the documentation still states that font files should be of
> > filetype Data (&ffd).
>
> Hi Fred, via a particularly lucky bit of googling I found some
> postings from 2005 on the zap-technical mailing list which indicate
> that filetype &1BD had just been allocated for Zap fonts. I guess the
> documentation never got updated.
>
> http://www.archivum.info/zap-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/2005-01/00004/Font-filetype.html

That explains it then, many thanks.

Cheers,

Fred.

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