Thanks, all, for the good information. Now I get to go back to the
applications staff to find out which, if any, of these fonts they actually
use...
Rex
>From Roger Bolan:
For specific information on fonts on your system you can 1. Browse the fonts
directly. There is some readable descriptive information 2. If you have
Document Composition Facility and run the DSMFLIP program, then you get a
listing of the fonts with lots of information.
For example, the names you give: GT18, GT12, CB12, and CB18 refer to coded
fonts.
A coded font is a small file that links a character set to a code page.
The names you give in the CHARS are actually shortened forms of the real coded
font names which always begin with X. So, for example, if I browse the
SYS1.FONTLIBB library and look inside X0GT18, I can read the name of the
character set and code page in this line:
!..Lð«...C0D0GT18T1D0BASE.........
If you browse the character set C0D0GT18, and the code page T1D0BASE you will
see some more descriptive fields in there.
Best is the DSMFLIP listing. Where I can see:
CHARACTER SET : C0D0GT18 GOTHIC
CODED FONT CODE PAGE
X0GT18 T1D0BASE DCF REL 2 COMPATIBILITY
and also
DESCRIPTIVE NAME: GOTHIC
CHARACTER POINT
SET SIZE WEIGHT WIDTH STYLE
DEVICE
C0D0GT24 04 Medium Normal Roman 3820
C0D0GT20 05 Medium Normal Roman 3820
C0D0GT18 06 Medium Normal Roman 3820
There's more to each line, but I didn't want to make lines here that would
wrap.
On these old compatibility fonts, the numbers in the names are pitch, not point
size. You can see above how the point size decreases the more characters per
inch to the pitch (18 per inch, 20 per inch, 24 per inch).
Regards,
Roger Bolan
IBM Printing Systems Division
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