Fonts: Appearance of Strings on Screen or Print

A Windows font is a combination of typeface, point size and a few other characteristics. HicEst offers several ways to select a font.

• menu -> option -> fonts.
  By use of the Windows font manager individual fonts can be set for the following font numbers:
  • 1 = default font
  • 2 = HicEst script font. For the script window font a fixed font is recommended. It is used also for some help dialogs
  • 3 = font used for dialogs
  • 4 = fixed font
  • 5 = graphics font for scales etc. The graphics window font should be a TrueType or OpenType font that can be rotated for the y-axis
  • 6 = temporary font
  • 7 = print font
  . These fonts are saved between sessions.
• Set the font in SYSTEM under program control:
  • SYSTEM(FontNr=fontnr, FONt=Name, PoinT=pnt, BOld=bld, ITalic=ital, UnderLine=uline, ROTate=degrees)

  option	type	font_attribute_examples :
  FONt	txt	fon = ' ' to call the font manager fon='Lucida Console' to set directly
  	num	fon = 3 refers to the dialog font
  PoinT	num	pnt <= 0 calls the font manager pt =10 * (1 + (big == 1)) font size 10 or 20 if big is = 1
  BolD	log	BolD=1 activates bold, bd=0 deactivates
  UnderLine	log	underl = ulin (0 or not equal 0)
  ITalic	log	italic = ital (0 or /= 0)

• Set the font and its attributes directly in the function where it is used:
  • • WRITE (FONt=NN, PoinT=pnt, BOld=bld, ITalic=ital, UnderLine=ulin, ROTate=90, ForeColor=fc, BaCkcolor=bc) argument_list
  • • WINDOW (win=wh, FONt=NN, PoinT=pnt, BOld=bld, ITalic=ital, UnderLine=ulin, ROTate=45, GraphicsFont=name)
  • • AXIS (FONt=NN, PoinT=pnt)
  • • DLG (FONt=NN, Point=pnt, Edit=something) ! Font for this DLG only
  • • EDIT (..., TabiFyfont=nr) ! nr = 1...7