[futurebasic] [FB3] Charcoal font in edocs

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From: PRITCHA@...
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:07:50 +0100


Are there any font wizzards that knows
what to do about the following?

Viewing the FB^3 docs on MacOS 8.N works fine.
But if anybody else is doing what I'm doing and
using an old PowerBook to read the documents,
then there is a minor problem with the Charcoal
font - it doesn't exist on MacOS 7.6.1.

The eDoc reports font substituition and some
writing is illegible.

Charcoal is required for some special characters:
("Command", for instance).

Is there an alternative font that Staz could use
in eDocs? (Staz has indicated that he might
consider a change for release 1 if there was
a simple way to do it)

Can you port Charcoal font onto older machines
(technically)?

Are there copyright problems in doing so?

BTW, Much to my surprise FB^3 Editor seems to run just
fine on my 68K PB although I haven't tried compiling anything, yet.

I haven't seen any minimum specification for FB^3,
does such info exist?

Andy