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Re: [WriteLog] Adding new fonts to Entry Window

To: Alan Maenchen <ad6e@arrl.net>
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Adding new fonts to Entry Window
From: Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu@gmail.com>
Reply-to: jim@rhodesend.net
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:39:46 -0600
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Have you added the font to Windows fonts? Not sure how that is done in win
10, haven't added any fonts since along about xp.

Jim Rhodes

On Feb 16, 2017 1:05 PM, "Alan Maenchen" <ad6e@arrl.net> wrote:

> I was looking for a better entry font and ran across the G0HWC list with a
> whole lot of various slashed zero fonts that he made.
>
> http://www.g0hwc.com/ham_radio_fonts.html
>
> I downloaded one of them, the T93Y font, and tried to load it into the WL
> as the Entry font but ran into a problem. Setup / Entry Window font gives a
> very limited list of available fonts .. only seven. The new font, T93Y
> isn't listed nor are the many other fonts that are in Control Panel > All
> Control Panel Items > Fonts.
>
> The bar "Show More Fonts" works fine and brings up a large list, but I
> can't add any fonts beyond the seven already listed. I assume these seven
> were fonts that I played with in earlier versions of WL. I'm now running
> WL12.12C and Win10.
>
> Not a big deal. Consolas font is pretty good and that's what I'm using now.
> Fortunately it is in that short list of seven fonts that I have to choose
> from.
>
> BTW, the Log Window font selection gives me the complete list and I can
> change to the new T93Y font for the log just fine.
>
> One other point I just noticed. If I change the Entry font to a larger font
> (sorry, my eyes aren't what they used to be) then the green oval with L or
> R  becomes a vertical line. Not a serious problem but probably not supposed
> to do that.
>
> Aloha,  Alan  AD6E / KH6TU
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