From: Simon Strandgaard Date: 2005-01-20T03:16:54+09:00 Subject: Re: [ann] aeditor-2.1 (megacorp release) On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 04:12:27 +0100, Lothar Scholz wrote: [snip] > And one specific question: > I never had an amiga, so i don't know what you mean with "the good old > Amiga multicolor fonts". Do you have any example screenshots of those > and maybe a URL of a webpage which describes formats and give some > example data/code ? With arachno ruby i also run into the situation > that sometimes some multicolor fonts might help . But doesn't they > forbid customization of color themes ? there are some shots of multi color fonts here: http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/data/multi_color_font_01.png http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/data/multi_color_font_02.png I am not interested in color bloated fonts.. just nice fonts (or retro fonts). If stored as bitmap fonts then a separate palette file could be stored. Perhaps with 5 different palette fonts per font. Alternatively could the font be stored as SVG. I have never heard of a standardized multicolor font format, so I think one would have to invent a format. Too bad so many applications only supports mono fonts. > I would like to start a discussion of editor implementation and also > share my experience but i'm not sure if the mailing list is such a > good place to do this. You are welcome to join aeditor-talk (not much going on at the moment) http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/aeditor-talk I would like to discuss editors too :-) -- Simon Strandgaard