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- From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
- Subject: Re: Scalable Windows
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:27:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.192719.27866@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec20.003951.24446@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Dec20.174502.15409@dragon.acadiau.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec20.174502.15409@dragon.acadiau.ca> 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner) writes:
- }parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
- }
- }>Jeremy Mathers (pynq@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- }>> In DV/X, for example, you can open a DOS window with scalable fonts, and
- }>> you can then resize the window ... tiny [and the font scales down].
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- }>You can do this somewhat by changing font sizes but you can't make it
- }>respond to window resizing in that way.
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- }This is certianly a feature that I would like to see IBM add to OS/2 in a
- }future release. It could be done in one of two ways, by adding a scalable
- }setting in the notebook for a window or by adding a special scalling widget.
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- Unfortunately, the new, skinny ISO fonts don't shrink well with most color
- combinations.
-
- Larry
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- Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
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