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From: Markus Gebhard <markus@jave.de>
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Subject: Re: FIGlet Fonts Library update
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:20:05 +0100
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MJP wrote:
> As a sidenote the figFonts that have been made in the javE fig editor
> give a missing parameter error (I think it is the length parameter).
> I found this out after copying the new ones into the figWIN beta font
> folder and trying to use them. Turned out ok as the person I was
> going to give them to loaded javE instead, and I think that is a
> better outcome :) it would be nice to have the cross platform
> useability though.

You are right: FIGwin complains about lines in the FIGfont being wider
than the specified Max_Length parameter. But actually this isn't true.
Here is what the FIGfont Version 2 and FIGdriver Standard sais:

   "The Max_Length parameter is the maximum length of any line describing
a FIGcharacter. This is usually the width of the widest FIGcharacter,
plus 2 (to accommodate endmarks as described later.)..."

When looking at ascii_new_roman.flf for example the longest line is this
one:

        ##
123456789

Its width is 9 and that's what's specified in the header:

flf2a$ 4 3 9 63 12 0 8127 0
            ^

Also even if I set the Max_Length parameter to 1000 FIGwin still
complains about the same problem. I think the error message is wrong and
FIGwin has a different problem here.

I have also checked out the original command line figlet tool and it has
no problems using the fonts cerated using JavE...

Markus