David Solly wrote:
> A potential client has asked me if I could develop a program for
> him to do some linguistic calculations and plot the results onto
> various styles of charts and graphs. (I am using TP 7.0 for DOS
> to do this.) The mathematics and plotting involved are not
> complicated and were the texts I am expected to manipulate in
> English or French, I could proceed with little problem.
> The problem is that the texts are in Old and Middle English, Old
> Norse, Icelandic and other members of that family of languages
> plus some IPA. I have been able to duplicate most of the texts
> using multilingual code page 850 but when I try to plot the texts
> to graphs, I run smack against the classic text mode vs graphics
> mode conflict. As expected, the default graphics mode compatible
> character set is totally useless for this task as well as are any
> stroked character set files I have been able to locate thus far.
> At the moment, I don't have the time, (or the artistic skill), to
> create stroked fonts from scratch for this project.
> I have the 16 x 8 and the 8 x 8 bit-maps for all the characters I
> require. For this project, I do not need anything more
> sophisticated that these. The question is: Is it possible to
> overwrite the existing graphics compatible bit-mapped character
> set with a character set containing the special characters I
> require so text and graphics can co-exist? If so, how? If not,
> what are some alterantives?
> Thank you all for your time and trouble. A belated Merry
> Christmas and best wishes for a Happy New Year to you all.
> David Solly
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> David Solly ac...@freenet.carleton.ca
> Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
> Voice: (613) 731-2120
