Marcel Kilgus wrote:
> Arnould Nazarian wrote:
>
>>One of my wishes for a long time is printing on screen with fixed size
>>proportional fonts at OS level. If possible by reusing the Text87 fonts
>>because there are a lot around. That would be fast, and still
>>interesting effects could be achieved even in todays PE.
> Yes, just changing all print routines to another layout probably isn't
> a good idea.
It is a pity because, as I already wrote in this list a long time ago,
QDOS was foreseen for fixed size proportional fonts, much like the
Macintosh when it was introduced. But it was the marketing people at
Sinclair who refused the feature, because it seemed impossible to have a
better printing into the command line and the QDOS windows than in the
wordprocessor (yes Quill was initially programmed for the IBM PC, and
this machine only had fixed size fonts at the time).
This is only to stress again on the point that the routines seem to be
foreseen for proportional printing on screen: that is why characters can
be placed with pixel accuracy both in QDOS and the PE. So it should be
feasible, and the main hassle would be with old QLers using old software
that would not work as expected.
Arnould
